Success/Values: Walter Lee defines success as material and financial gain. Beneatha defines success as self-actualization, or learning about and nurturing oneself. But to their mother, Lena, success is less self-centered and lies more in creating a happy, healthy family. Lena freque...

Buddha, a well-known and credible philosopher, once said, "There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed." Lorraine Hansberry very successfully portrayed the evil of greed in her novel A Raisin in the Sun. A story of a fa...

Summary Chapter 1 The book begins as Ellen Creighton and her nine-year-old son, Jethro, plant potatoes for the summer crop. Ellen has had twelve children, four of whom have died. She is a tired woman who favors Jethro most of all. Three of Jethro's siblings died from children's paralysis the ye...

In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee Younger is portrayed as the big dreamer of the Younger family. His dream is to become rich and he spins up schemes with this friends, particularly with Willy Harris. When the play opens, he wants to invest his father's insurance money into a liquor store. H...

A Raisin in The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry is a short novel set in Chicago in the 1960's. It revolves around particular events in the lives of the Younger family when they receive an insurance check for ten thousand dollars. The Younger family is immediately introduced and we immediately beco...

The Coming of Walter Lee Younger into Manhood "A Raisin in the Sun" can be seen as a play about a middle-aged African-American male's belated rise to manhood. In the beginning of the play, Walter Lee is portrayed as the typical man of the house, however he is far from being a man....

In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, each character clings to a dream. Mama, Walter Lee, and Beneatha Younger portray three different characters striving for three different dreams. Each Younger has a vision of what life could be and Hansberry shows how Walter Lee, Beneatha, and Mama attem...

Mama is the mother of both Beneatha and Walter Lee. She is head of the family as well as maternal and religious. Mama wants to use the insurance money from her husband to buy a house for her family. Mama is proud of who she is and of her African heritage and believes in its importance. Mama is a...

Walter is frustrated with his current position in life, and every disappointment he has encountered thus far. His position is symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Hansberry stated in her meeting with Robert Kennedy..."the first thing that...

Walter is frustrated with his current position in life, and every disappointment he has encountered thus far. His position is symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Hansberry stated in her meeting with Robert Kennedy..."the first thing that must be...

A Good Script Gone Bad Lorraines Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" was published in 1958 and released as a movie directed by Bill Duke in 1989. He casted Danny Glover as Walter Lee, Starletta DuPois as Ruth, Esther Rolle as Lena, and Kim Yancey as Beneatha. As I Watched the movie...

A Raisin In the Sun is a drama play that takes place sometime between World War II and the present. The drama examines how an African American struggles to break out of the themes of poverty, dreams, racism, society and other social themes they are faced with. Both the play and the movie version a...

Dreams A countless amount of human beings throughout disparate time periods had dreams that they desired one day would come true. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, this scenerio was exceedingly apparent. An African American family also known as the Younger family...

Missing Links: by Rick Reilly This book was about a group of friends that play golf and gamble all day at the worst golf course in America (they call it Ponky). One day one of them proposes a bet to see who could be the first one to play in the Mayflower, the golf course next door. This ...