Analysis on A Raisin in the Sun Racism in the Play
Racism in the Play "A Raisin in the Sun"
Racism is what’s keeping the world from uniting. The discrimination of others base on their beliefs or culture is what Lorraine Hansberry the author of the play A raisin in the Sun experienced. She was born in Chicago in 1930 and died in 1965. Her family was one of the first African American families to move into an all white neighborhood, which led to her discrimination experiences. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, she wrote about an African American family who lives in a small apartment building and how they dealt with their problems. The play starts out with Mama and the family anxiously waiting for a life insurance check to arrive in the mail for ten thousand dollars. As the story goes on, Walter decides to invest in a liquor store with two other of his friends Bobo and Willy. When the check arrives, Mama uses three thousand five hundred dollars for down payment on a house and wants three thousand dollars to put in towards Beneatha’s college fund. One important part of the play is when Mama hands over the rest of the money to Walter making him the man of the house. At the end Mama and her family moves into her new house. Although this play is about the life of an African American family in the old days, it showed us many important ways to overcome our problems and situations. The importance of dreams, true value of money, and equality of women are all three of the most important themes in this play.
The importance of dreams cannot be accomplished without hope. Hope is what’s helping you keep on going until you reach your dream. Walter’s dream is to have power and not be a servant like he is now. His idea on how to reach his dream is to use the money Mama got from the life insurance and invest it in the liquor store business. If he accomplishes this part, then all he has to do is make a lot of profit of his business and soon he will have enough money to make himself powerful by giving orders and not taking orders. “A job, Mama, a job? I open and close doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, yes, sir; no sir;...