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...

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...

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...

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...