A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun contains many themes. Lorraine Hansberry has developed those themes from her personal views and experiences. Many black authors and poets around the time of the depression had similar views and similar themes in their writings. Two themes Lorraine Hansberry uses in A Raisin in the Sun is that dreams can either save or destroy a person or in this case a family and the importance of family values and ... succeeded as a matter of course. And, above all, there were two things which were never to be betrayed: the family and the race." Lorraine Hansberry put ...

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... like a heavy load would. There is a line in the poem that says, "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"(Referring to a dream deferred), this line relates to the play because, Walter's dream of owning a liquor store is kind of like a raisin in the sun, dried up. Near the end of the story things started to look up for the Younger family. They got the insurance money, got a new house, and started to ... get along like a family should. This met the dreams of some of the Younger family ... members and at the end everyone was relatively ... ...

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... been satisfied simply working and caring for his family, Walter is preoccupied with becoming successful in the business world without thinking about the resulting consequences for his family. Once again, family ties proves itself to be the theme of "A Raisin in the Sun." Later in the play, Beneatha, the younger sister of Walter, initiates a conflict by speaking in an unacceptable manner about God - rejecting values that have been taught to her since ... my father-my father-he earned it." This bold and unselfish move helps to propagate the family's long standing ethics, values, and pride...

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... sacrifice the goals of one for the good of many, so he tells the gentleman from the 'Welcoming Committee' that they "decided to move into our house because my father-my father-he earned it." This bold and unselfish move helps to propagate the family's long standing ethics, values, and pride. A Raisin in the Sun displays a great recurring theme in life that many times the good of the few ... has to be sacrificed through the needs and propagation of the group. This ... play also powerfully illustrates the idea that sometimes to hold on to ethics, values, and pride is ... ...

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... to sacrifice the goals of one for the good of many, so he tells the gentleman from the Welcoming Committee that they "decided to move into our house because my father...my father-he earned it." This bold and unselfish move helps to propagate the family's long standing ethics, values, and pride. A Raisin in the Sun displays a great recurring theme in life, many times the good of the few has ... to be sacrificed through the needs of the group. This play ... also powerfully illustrates the idea that sometimes to hold on to ethics, values, and pride is ... ...

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