In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, one of the most important themes is the American Dream. ... When he finds he lost the money later in the novel, he says "...Man, I put my life in your hands..." ( ) All he ever dreamed of was the liquor business, when he lets out this statement of desperation, the reader really realizes how much all of it meant to him. ... Though out he play, A Raisin in the Sun, many different people have many different conflicting dreams, however the main characters seem to get their dream in the end when they decide to move into their new house. ...

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Two literary works which support this quote are A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry and The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, there is a character named Walter Lee. ... Another work of literature which supports this quote is the novel, The Scarlet Letter. ... In conclusion, the quote, "The test of a courageous person is the ability to bear defeat without losing heart", is supported by two works of literature, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, and The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In A Raisin in the Sun, the use of the l...

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In the world today, there has been no society found where women dominate over males (Stearns 14). Civilization's entire history has been based upon masculine traits and how they affect society. Some say this may be because the fertility of women was always put in such high esteem by early religion...

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Lorraine Hansberry wove a woeful tale of a family called the Youngers, A poor black family living in a tiny run-down apartment, in her novel A Raisin in the Sun. ... His dream was, drying up like a raisin in the sun, because no one would support his ideas. ...

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Poetry is why paintings, films, novels, and musical compositions are poetic. ... Maybe the dream breaks up like a raisin, damaged and old, but the essence of it is still intact. ... The poem suggests the inevitability of violence if racial cruelty is allowed to continue and A Raisin in the Sun first appears at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. ... Something that makes Hughes" poem so poetic is his reference to the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. ... Hughes also asks the question: "Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?" ...

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This ultimate challenge is highlighted in Dubois' novel "The Souls of Black Folks" in which he shows that there is not one but two souls that each African American has inside of him. ... In his novel, Dubois plays on the idea of identity and self-awareness (Dubois and Griffin 2005). ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel such as "A Raisin in the Sun" or "The Souls of Black Folks", you cannot immediately assume that this story represents every single African American family across the United States. ...

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