Posted by Paula Scoggins (165.196.97.34) on June 22, 2005 at 3:04:31 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: A Raisin in the Sun and "Harlem" Wednesday Discussion posted by Tatyana Lazukova on June 22, 2005 at 1:57:58 p.m.:
>>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).
>Hello Tatyana,
I first must commend you on your analysis of the play and the poem. I thought you did a great job at summing up the meaning. I took the ending of the poem and the play as a new beginning. When Langston Hughes expressed, “Or does it explode?” I took that as a jump start to a new beginning, a fresh start. Just like at the end of the play when Walter Lee finally became the man of the house and stopped making excuses for everything I thought this too was an explosion for a new beginning. I think it’s great when another reader can make you see a different perspective on something. I also thought that the way you compare the Younger plight with financial oppress to the title of the play, A Raisin in the Sun, since a raisin is dried up, with many grooves. I thank you for you insight.