Posted by Kristi Vang (67.174.158.14) on June 21, 2005 at 10:24:01 p.m.:
In Reply to: A Raisin in the Sun and "Harlem" Wednesday Discussion posted by Jeanne Guerin on June 21, 2005 at 12:57:24 p.m.:
“A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry refers to hopes and dreams that somehow get lost. In other word, the longer the raisin stays in the sun the more it withers and dies. The poem “Harlem” or as the author (Langston Hughes) questions “A Dream Deferred” refers to the hopes and dreams of people leaving an impoverished life to make themselves a better world. This seems to be the central theme in “A Raisin in the Sun”. Does the title “A Raisin in the Sun” refer to the dark color of the black man in the sun (or light) of the white mans world? Is that raisin in the sun going to explode as in the poem? Langston Hughes poem seems to have a bitter under current and I wonder how he got out of Harlem. In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” the black people seems more successful, in escaping their fate than those depicted in the poem.
Kristi Vang
>Discuss the title of A Raisin in the Sun
>and the connection with Langston Hughes poem
>printed right before the play.
>Read and respond to your classmates
>(8 sentences minimum).