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"A Raisin In The Sun"
Ruth
Ruth Younger ironing, her job and takes up most of her time.
Raisin Set
A set from one of the plays of A Raisin In the Sun.
Ruth Younger ironing, her job and takes up most of her time.
A set from one of the plays of A Raisin In the Sun.
Housing
This apartment building symbolizes many of the problems the Younger family had. The fact that the Younger's had to live in such a small apartment shows that they don't have a lot of money. Ruth and Lena had to work extra hours just so they could make ends meet. Many African Americans at the time were living in small apartments just trying to get by. (www.venerableproperties.com) Click on the photo to learn about African Americans and the housing market.
Women in the 1950's
This picture shows a young African American woman walking to a once segregated school. Women wanted to further their education in the 1950's and wanted to become something important. For example, Beneatha wanted to become a doctor, which was unheard of at the time. (www.openorigins.edu) Click on the photo to learn about the Women's Rights Movement.
Racial Discrimmination in the 1950s
This sign shows the racial discrimmination of the 1950s in cities across America. White communities didn't want African American families moving into their neighborhoods as they believed problems would occur. (www.albany.edu) Click on the photo to learn more about the discrimmination of blacks in the 1950s and how they changed it.
African American Unemployment and Jobs in the 1950s
This graph shows the increase in unemployment in the African American community compared to the white community. As a result, many African Americans had low paying labor jobs. (occawlone.personed.com) Click on the photo to learn some of the jobs African Americans had in the 1950s.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes poem, "A Dream Deferred", was the inspiration for Hansberry to write "A Raisin In The Sun". (www.assumption.edu) click on the photo to read "A Dream Deferred".
8 comments:
The plant is an example of forshadowing in the play because the flower represents the family. It was once a beautiful flower that shined with life and brightness but now it's lacking luster and life. The Youngers are the exact same way. Walter wasn't always this bitter and Ruth wasn't always this depressed. Lena is trying to bring her flower back to life back to the way it used to look. Lena is also trying to bring her family back to life. She wants the family to be united as one without fighting or any of the harships that they are facing now. Lena's trying to save her family and her plant at the same time but really all she has to do is save one.
KIA
Like KIA said, the plant represents the Younger family. The plant does not get enough sunlight and that is making it die. The family does not have a lot of money so they struggle. The family lives in a small apartment and barely makes ends meet. Throughout the play we see the family's struggle and the plant appears several times. When the family moves to the house, they get hope and happiness in their lives. Lena takes the plant with her so it can get lots of sunlight. The plant moving to a better place shows the start of a new beginning.
KES
The plant is an example of foreshadowing becasue is represents what the Younger family is going through, which is struggles. Just like the plant struggling to survive the Younger family is struggling to survive. The plant not getting any sunlight represent nothing happening for anybody in the family no openings for jobs and no money. The plant needs things to keep on living and the family needs things to keep on survivnig. Meaning the plant is a big representation of foreshadowing.
MPD
The plant is an explame for foreshadowing and symbolizes the family because as the family struggles so does the plant. Lena never gives up on keeping the plant alive and well as well as her family. Even when her family is deteriorating and Beneatha questions why she continues to keep the plant, Lena tends to it constantly. Lena believes if she can nuture the wilting flower back to life, she can keep her family alive as well. Throughout the play, as the flower changes, so does the family.
BCW
Lena tells says that this plant never seems to get enough light and that is why it is dying. The plant/flower represents the family. Lena is trying her best to bring the flower back to life just like she is trying her best to keep her family together, and will do anything to make sure that happens. To fix her family problems, she gives the money to Walter to take care of, hoping he will step up and take charge of the family. The flower just has to be given sunlight and it will grow.
RPN
I think that the plant doesn't represent the Younger family as much as it resembles/plays as Mama's dream. She seems to want to be able to own her own "something" and that has been put off and lost along the way so she is trying to fulfill her dream even if it means on a minuscule level. I am not trying to disagree with anyone I am just giving an additional point of view.
i think the plant represents the family because the family went through many struggles throughout the book and so did the plant. This is because the Younger family did not have enough money and when the got money they lost it and the plant did not have enough sunshin or water so it continued to fade into a dried up twig.
The plant does not represent foreshadowing. It does not hint at the future of the family. The plant is a symbol for the Youngers and their dreams. Mama's plant represents the family. Please get your literary terms right or your may mess people;s education up.
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