LITERARY ANALYSIS OF "A Raisin in the Sun" A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is essentially about dreams, as the main characters struggle to deal with the oppressive circumstances that rule their lives. ... He wonders whether those dreams shrivel up "like a raisin in the sun." ... When A Raisin in the Sun opened in March of 1959, it was met with great praise, from white and black audiences alike. ... Raisin in the Sun was a watershed because it touched on so many issues that were going on in the 1950s in America. ... A Raisin in the Sun was a radical work for its time. ...

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"A Raisin in the Sun" (Act 1) In Act 1, scene 1 of "A Raisin in the Sun," you are brought into the setting of the Younger's apartment, a small, worn-down two bedroom apartment on the South Side of Chicago. ...

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Character Analysis- A Raisin In The Sun: Analysis of Beneatha In the play, A Raisin in The Sun there are many obstacles that each character faces, one character in particular, Beneatha Younger and her character is what one would call strong and speaks up for what she believes in. ... In closing Beneatha Younger has a very important role in A Raisin in the Sun. ... Basically Beneatha made a choice because if her dream was delayed she would have been "dried up, like a raisin in the sun". ...

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In the play, "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry, the protagonist Walter Lee Younger goes through a dramatic change in character from the start to the end. Walter is a middle aged man who wants to make more of his life than be a chauffeur by investing a lot of money to buy a liquor store wi...

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Analysis This scene exemplifies Walter's view of money at this point. ... Analysis The reason Mama tells Walter he should talk to his wife is because she is pregnant. ... Analysis An important difference between the play and the movie is the setting for this scene. ... Analysis: The result of Walter's blind desire to get rich is what occurs in this scene. ... Analysis This part of the play is the turning point for Walter. ...

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A few years later, in 1904, Thomson, based on his experiments with cathode ray tubes, proposes the Plum Pudding Model of the atom, which suggests that the atom is made up of a positively-charged sphere or diffuse with negatively-charged electrons scattered all around the diffuse, similar to the way raisins are scatted in a pudding. ... After a close analysis of his results, Rutherford proposed a revised model of the atom in 1911 which he dubbed as being the Nuclear Model. Specifically, the nuclear model states that all the positively-charged particles of the atom and a large part of its atom...

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