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...

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...

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...

A Raisin in the Sun: Family unity In the play A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry, family unity appears sometimes as the enemy and at other times, it is the friend. As the play progresses the unity of the family is often questioned. In both the play and the film, family unity ...

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...

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...