About this title: The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations.
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Edition: 13th anniversary Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Samuel French Inc Plays, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1959
ISBN-13:9780573614637ISBN:0573614636
Description: Fair. 5 x 7 trade paperback book. White lettering on the black spine and cover. The 13th Anniversary Edition of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. 160 pages. Cover very worn and creased. Page cornes creased. Highlighting and notes. Tight binding. Fair condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Samuel French Inc Plays
Date Published: 1959-06
ISBN-13:9780573614637ISBN:0573614636
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Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Edition: Reprint. 30th Anniversary Revised Edition
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Samuel French, New York, New York
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780573614637ISBN:0573614636
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. No creases to the spine. A nice copy. No notes or marks to the text. Trade paperback (US). 160 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Samuel French Inc Plays
Date Published: 1988-06
ISBN-13:9780573614637ISBN:0573614636
Description: Good. All books in Acceptable-Good condition. Books may NOT include Online Access Codes (InfoTrac, MyEconLab). Books MAY contain highliting/bent pages. We ship M-F. read more
Description: Very Good. 30th Anniversary Ed. (Rev.). 1959 Paperback. Orders usually ship on or before next business day. May have highlighting. We send best copy available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Samuel French Inc Plays
Date Published: 1988-06
ISBN-13:9780573614637ISBN:0573614636
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"Raisin in the Sun was really a nice, simple read. That's kind of why I love plays so much - they're a bunch of big ideas condensed into a couple of uttered sentences of dialogue. They're fast and choppy because they're meant to be seen on stage. That said, I think Raisin in the Sun is just as effective read as it is performed. A lot of stage directions are absolutely insane and sound like the beginning chapter of a very large novel! Lorraine Hansberry, I guess, was more preoccupied with sounding poetic than in creating practical stage directions. For a reader, though, that's much better. The book takes place in no particular time period, and a lot of the characters are described in a general sense, with no particulars like age weighing them down. I thought that was kind of cool - it makes the play very universal, or at least universal in a 20th century kind of sense. The truth is, it honestly doesn't matter when the play takes place or where or what age the characters are. The play centers around a lower-middle class family living in a crowded city apartment in Chicago, and their struggles with money issues and race and identity."
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? The reason why i really liked A Raisin in the Sun because it realates to real life in away that everyone can feel. There is nothing fake about any of the characters in the book. As you read, you tend to find someone that you know. The conflict of tyhe story is so real that you feel it and makes you believe you are apart of the story in someway. The themes of the book are so real because everyone can feel the emotion in them. In this essay, I will explain how these things ultimatly made me love the book A Raisin in the Sun . A Raisin in the Sun interest me because of the conflicts the book contains. Some of the conflicts include: man vs. man, man vs. himself, and man vs. society. Walter lee constantly argues with his mother about the insurance money. This relates to real life because, children and there parents argue every day. Man vs. himself is a conflict in the book because, Walter Lee constantly condemns himself to a worthless future. This ties into everyday life because when people use the word cant, they condemn themselves to a worthless future. Man vs. society because the community of claybourn park tried to convince the younger family not to move to there nieborhood because the color off there skin. People must deal with racism and predjudice everyday. Another reason why I like the play A Raisin in the Sun is because of the characters that interact through out the book. Take Walter Lee for example, in the play, he is very niave when he trusts someone else with is money and then they run off with it. Walter Lee changes because whenit really comes down to it, he makes the right choices. this relates to real lfe in the way that walter lee is the essance of some students who play around but when it comes down to it they do what they need to do. Another character in the play that stood out to me was mama. Mama was the back bone of the family pushing her chilren because she knew the potential they had. This relates to the everyday women, pushing and challenging there children to be th best that they could possibly be. The last character that really stood out was Mr. linder. In the story, linder is the biggest concrete antagonist though, he represents a more abstract antagonist, racism. Linder represents the evil of the human mind. The same evil that everyone must face in some way or another. The themes from the book"
"I really enjoyed this play. I first read it in HS (like most other things) but re-read it for my future novelinks project. I think it expresses so many of the concerns at the time period (despite being vague...sometime between WWII and present) of not only a poor family, but of the black family. It's a devastating story that you have to just sit and watch it unfold, knowing what will happen but see it destroy the characters pulls various emotions, that a play usually lacks. I really liked seeing major issues develop around each character....the black identity in all characters, particularly Beneatha, manhood in Walter, love and pride in the mother and her relationship with the plant which encompasses all she dreams for, and the list goes on. In a simple and indirect way, Hansberry covers the multitude of issues the black family faced during the time and I think does an excellent job raising the right questions. I would love to see this performed on stage. I've seen a movie interpretation of it, but want to see what it was written for in the theater. I think an actor or actress could take this classic play and really do wonders with it."
"The story was brilliant! It was a story about love, sacrifice and family values. My favorite character was Mama Lena. She was the one that really maintain the family values and the respect within the family, which her own kids knew little about. I like the way she interacts with little Travis.
Mama always wanted a house for her entire family, but her dream never came true until her husband dies and because of his insuranse Mama Lena was able to buy the house, her children grew up and so did their dreams. Benetha and Walter wanted different things now. When she finally realizes it, Mama Lena decided to buy a house anyway and she promised it to Travis.
I also like Mama how she truly forgives her son for trusting the man she warned Walter was not good man at all. I like how she brings the family together one more time to live together and even though she knew it would be very risky to live in the new house surrounded by white people she taught again a great lesson to her son Walter by reminding him what his father would have done in his place."
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