A Raisin In The Sun y Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry was the writer of A Raisin In The Sun. She was a very smart black author. She was the first black writer and the youngest to win The Best Play of the Year award in New York City. Hansberry came from a rich family that were strong advocates of African Americans in society. Her parents seems to be a pretty big influence on her considering a lot of her writings were about what her parents felt so strongly about. Her play A Raisin In The Sun was very popular. While reading it I felt the passion and pain for the family. It is so sad that people used to not be treated equally because of their skin color. All the Younger family wanted was to be equal in America. To live like the white people did in a nice home and be able to give their kids the things that the white kids had. As the story started it described a poor black family that lived in a very small apartment where they had to share the bathroom with their neighbor. I couldn’t imagine trying to share a bathroom with a neighbor, I do good to share it with my family that lives in my home. Then the mother talks about getting a settlement from her husband who died. This was supposedly going to save the family since all of their problems were mostly money. They all seemed to have different plans with what they wanted to do with the money. When the money finally arrives Lena decides that the best things to do is to buy a house in a nice neighborhood. What the family finds out later is that it is in an all white neighbor hood. A man living in the community comes to them and asked them not to move in to save controversy for everyone. The main objective I got from the story was about races being equal and how and how bad things were then.