Difficulities in the Play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Ess

Difficulities in the Play A Raisin in the tempe hookeness by Lorraine Hansberry In the four years between 1861 and 1865 this country was in civil war over the rights and freedom of blacks in America. When all was utter and d maven, the blacks won their freedom and gained several rights that would make their lives better. N primaeval one one hundred years later, in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry wrote her great play, A Raisin in the Sun. It described the unremarkable life of a black family in the Southside of Chicago sometime by and by World War II. Throughout the play, Hansberry talks of the difficulties that the Younger family faces trying to bemuse from one day to an different the problems that should have been resolved by the civic War. Even after the Civil War and this play, many of these problems still last today.The first difficulty that the Younger family faces is poor housing. The play starts off in a small two bedroom apartment with Ruth argus-eyed up her son, Travi s, who sleeps on the couch in the living room. He sleeps on the couch because one bedroom is used by Ruth and Walter and the other by Mama and Beneatha. Every morning they wake up early so they sack get to the one bathroom that is shared by all of the other families that live in the complex. When Mama talks nigh putting a down payment on a saucily house, Ruth says, ?Well, Lord knows, we?ve put enough rent into this here rat hollow to pay for four houses by now? (p. 1817). When she says rat trap you would naturally think of some of the houses today with boarded up or modest windows, unattended yards, and streets that are covered with potholes. But in the movie, it is nothing homogeneous that. The movie depicts the apartment in a very livable way. You can say they made the best of a bad situation. T... ... over this and it was mulish by the Civil War the blacks should have their freedom as ? exuberant? American citizens. When will we be able to live as one community? ?The hi story must be taught, and if not in schools then(prenominal) at home. But that won?t or can?t be done until our home life, our families, get back on track. Its a vicious cycle. We still have a long, long way to go.? (Lee p. xivii)BibliographyHansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Norton Introduction to Literature 7th edition. Ed. Jerome Beaty, et al. newborn York Norton, 1998.Lee, Spike. ?Commentary Thoughts on the Screenplay.? A Raisin in the Sun Original Screenplay. London Penguin, 1992Wilkerson, Margaret. ?Introduction.? A Raisin in the Sun Original Screenplay. London Penguin, 1992X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X As told to Alex Haley. New York Ballantine Books, 1992