Posted by Emily Frost-Morgan (24.10.89.143) on June 22, 2005 at 8:34:16 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).
The poem by Langston Hughes "Harlem" coonects with the play "A Raisin in the Sun", being that both the poem and the play set upon dreams. In the play Walter dreams of being a business man with a liquor store. Beneatha dreams of being a doctor. Mama dreams about having a house so little Travis could have a backyard to play in. The Younger family as a whole dream about having enough money to survive poverty. The poem "Harlem" talks about a dream that is being put off and goes through asking what happens to that dream. The Younger's dream gets kind of put off to the side when they lost their money, like in the poem "Or crust and sugar over-like a syrapy sweet" after their dreams were put off it made them stronger and see for the better and go against prejudice and racism.