"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......
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