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Submitted by kmoney215 on March 27, 2006
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\"A Raisin in the Sun\" was the only play written by Lorraine Hansberry. (A Raisin in the Sun and Other Improbabilities) It was a part of the curriculum during my freshman year of high school. Things that were tested and considered important and what we needed to know was the plot and a general moral of the story. By reading it again in college, I began to look into the characters a little more in depth and have a better understanding of why things happen the way they do, and what the true point of the play is. Hansberry creates very vivid images of her characters. Each character; Mama (Lena), Ruth, Beneatha, and Walter, plays a specific role in the plot of the story because of the traits they display. The story depicts a black family moving into a white neighborhood. The moral of the story is that you cannot move forward if you don\'t acknowledge the past. Hansberry, according to Karen Burke, the director of Literacy for Chicago public schools, \"The author was a native Chicagoan who wrote very clearly and rigidly about the city\'s history regarding restrictive housing for African Americans,\" (Chicago Celebrates A Native Daughter\'s Drama)
This family is a Matriarchial family, and Mama (Lena) is the head of it. Mama is a woman in her sixties who is considered to be full bodied, but strong. Hannsberry describes her \"She is, in a word, a beautiful woman.\" She is not beautiful in the sense of a typical young beautiful girl, but her experience behind her life makes her beautiful. Another way Mama shows beauty is when she tells Beneatha, \"You love people when they hurt you.\" On page 6 it refers to her having a \"face full of strength.\" I picture her to be a strong woman who can do anything as long as she has the mind set to do it. She shows compassion for life, and knows how to handle herself when she has been hurt or let down.
The three main women in this text represent moments in time. Mama represents the past. She represents...
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