Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Draws Parallels to Langston Hughes' Harlem

Everyone wants to make their dreams a reality, but unfortunately the dreams are not realized but may be delayed. Langston Hughes posted this theme in his poem masterpiece "Harlem" He asked many questions as to what happened to these dreams. In "raisin in the sun", Lorraine Hansberry took up many unresolved points of similarity with Harlem. Hansberry has always used the dreams of Mama Younger, Big Walter, and Walter Lee to refer to Hughes' poetry.

"Raisin in the sun" is a play by Lorraine Hansberry who made a debut in Broadway in 1959. The script title is a famous poem by Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem". The play is where the black family in Chicago is trying to improve the living environment by paying insurance money for the death of his father. Walter and Ruth Younger were an aged apartment in the south of Chicago, living with his son Travis, Walter's mother, mother, Walter's sister Beneire. Walter wants to open a liquor store with his friend Willy and Bobo. He wants to invest in this business with claims of his father's death life insurance. His mother was disapproved and I wanted to use that money for a new home in the Whites Community. After they paid the home down, the representatives of the community proposed to buy them to prevent the black family from moving to the neighborhood.

"Raisin in the sun" is a drama premiered by Lorraine Hansberry in Broadway in 1959. The title of the movie comes from Langston Hughes' s poem "Harlem" (also known as "dream extension"). This story tells of the story of a black family around Washington Park in Woodrow, Chicago, because he tried to make himself "better" by paying insurance premiums after his father died. New York drama critic Circle named it the best screenplay of 1959. Walter and Ruth Young Ah, their son Travis, Walter's mother Lena (mother) and Walter's sister Benetasha, lived in an aged one-bedroom apartment in southern Chicago. Side Walter rarely made a living as a limousine driver. Ruth is satisfied with his destiny, but Walter does not want to become wealthy. His plan is to invest in a liquor store with Willy and Bobo, smart Walter acquaintaries on the street.

Lorraine Hansberry received the title "Raisins under the Sun" at the famous poem "Harlem: A Dream Deferred" of Langston Hughes in 1951. Hughes was a famous black poet at the Harlem Renaissance in New York in the 1920s. Meanwhile, all kinds of black artists - musicians, poets, writers - provided innovative voices to their personal and cultural experiences. Harlem Renaissance was a period of hope and hope for black artists as the efforts of black artists got their attention in the United States and applauded. Indeed, the history of the 1920s was called jazz era. Because, in this era, the form of music made by avant-garde black musicians became very popular nationwide, which seems to reflect the prosperity and excitement of 10 years. The positive response to Harlem Renaissance and its art seems to suggest the possibility of African Americans accepting a new era.