Posted by Gary Walmer (67.172.168.223) on June 22, 2005 at 6:55:11 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.:
>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).
Raisin in the Sun was a title I did not prefer. I thought a Jury of her own peers had more depth and practical application that was addressed in the content of the story. Langstons Hughes poem "Harlem (A Dream Deferred) did not do much for me. Asking a question in the beginning of the poem brought the emphasis into a specific. I prefer poems, which allow my mind to wonder some. How the connection between the poem and the title of the play come into focus, is the authors view of the protagonists dreams being left to die. It seems obvious that her dreams were not even considered by her husband. The story however never addresses these dreams. Instead it leaves the reader with a view from the outside which allows them to imagine. I prefer this sort of writing which cause my mind to see through the trees in order to see the whole forest.