After reading “A Raisin In The Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry, I realized the importance and value of the stage direction in the play. The life and the success of the play lies in the hands of the director. This is true with A Raisin In The Sun. Here, Hanberry has managed and has planned the plot so well. The setting of the story happened on a particular date, the management and organization of the place are vividly described in addition, the readers could easily identify the character’s cultural background, their living conditions, and environment as a whole. The characters in the play are the following: Lena/ Mama is a responsible, caring, and loving mother, whose intention is to provide a good life for her family, Walter Lee, the eldest/son of mama, dream’s a better for his family by investing in a liquor store. Beneatha, daughter mama, whose ambition is to become a doctor. Ruth wife of Walter Lee, a responsible mom. Travis son of Walter Lee and Ruth dreams to have a comfortable life. All of them dream of American life such as happiness, success, improvement of social mobility, and freedom. I could also say that the dialogues assigned to its performer are appropriate to their respective roles. The conversations among them were clear and comprehensible that one can even relate it to real-life phenomenon. As the verbal and actual interaction takes place between or among the performers a reader can likely predict what will happen next or what will happen at the end of the story, a manifestation that Hanberry has gotten the attention and the interest of her readers.

On the other hand, the title of the play doesn’t convey a literal meaning but rather connotes a deeper meaning. One can come across it’s meaning through careful analysis and understanding of the message. Taking into consideration the raisin stands for the object and the sun as the outside factor. I’m proud and happy that I am now applying my knowledge in literature.

In what ways does Hansberry use stage directions to set up our expectations for what will happen in the play and what the characters are like?

– In “A Raisin in the Sun”, Hansberry shows how he displays his characters and environment of the act to the reader, knowing that they can send out a message through a Play. The old, crowded houses, the poor quality of life and the wonderful life that character wants and they work to improve the quality of life and their working environment. All of the above are for one goal that involves how to improve their social status and quality of life. The author depicts their thoughts, feelings which the express their feelings to each other.

The Youngers are a poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago. Lena’s children, Walter and Beneatha, each have their plans for the money. The oldest son, Walter wishes to invest in a liquor store. The younger sister, Beneatha, currently a college student, wants to use the money for medical school. Lena has plans as well for the money: she wants to buy a house for the family and finance Beneatha’s medical school. The environmental pressures are high: five people live in a tiny one-bedroom apartment, two families share a single bathroom, and the building is run-down and roach-infested. These pressures increase when Walter’s wife, Ruth, finds out that she is pregnant for the second time, and begins seriously contemplating abortion. Yet even in an environment where a request for fifty cents becomes a family conflict, there is room for ideas and dreams.

    I see that A Raisin in the Sun shows a poor family’s dreams exposed to racism for several generations. The author shows this poverty through the place they live in; it is a poor and old neighborhood. The first scene shows the apartment’s old furniture, which has no privacy and consists of one bedroom where all the family members live together. Each one of them has his own dream about the future. Because achieving their dreams and getting rid of that poverty depends on their possession of money, this money is the most important theme in the play. Also, Race and Discrimination have many negatives; one of them when you have many dreams that you can not achieve because you do not have the price of your dreams. The personalities in this family differ, as each one of them has a different dream. Mama’s dream is to own a big house that includes her family to provide a warmer and calmer atmosphere. Walter’s dream is to be the owner of a project to help his family be better, and Beneatha’s dream is to be a doctor. The different characteristics make them conflict together because they want to achieve their own dreams with money. The author draws a picture of the social life of African Americans at the time through this play.

The book “A Raisin in the Sun” by Hansberry talks about the hardship that Walter Lee’s family faced in living in poverty in the environment of the radical district of Chicago that they lived. Throughout the story, the author shows us the struggle that the Walter family faced and how lee has to share the bathroom with a group of people who live in their building, the job that Lee has that he is sick of working he wants a better lifestyle for his wife and his kid lee want that American dream. Lee talks to his wife Ruth into convenes his mother into giving the insurance check for the death of their father to Lee so he can use it to open a business while his daughter is going to use the money for her school to become a doctor. I see how the author depicted the hardship that everyone in the family faced the mom who wants to keep everyone together see that that money is destroying the family. Walter wants something better for himself his sister Beneatha who wants to be something does want to be in the role as every other woman would like an independent woman. Ruth whose is struggling with her husband with her kid and a baby coming on the way thinking about having an abortion due to the stress that her husband gives out to her and the lifestyle that they are living in the apartment. At the end of the story, we see that Walter change as a person in the began we he was obsessed with money that he would
Give up his pride and his dignity for money but he sees that money is not everything in the end.

In the play “A raisin in the sun,” the author picture Walter family cleverly. Walter believes the financial status will eliminate the difference between blackness and whiteness, which is ridiculous. All that he is thinking of is investing money to be rich. Lee has and daughter and son and both of them believe that their education will make the American dream true. The whole family including his wife with has suffered poverty and their goal is to get rid of this small room and having a better quality of life. Eventually, Lee lost most of his property because he was over-optimistic about investing money. Now he believes that his dignity, pride, and the love that this family carries are much important. Money does not make happiness as long as you do not know what is the meaning of it.

After I read the play “a raisin in the sun” by Hansberry, I noticed that Hansberry have used many stage directions to connect the plots with the characters, which enables readers to learn about the members of the family and what the family are struggling with. For example, the plot that Travis, Walter’s son, sleeps in the living room depicts the tough financial environment of this family.

Walter and Beneatha, whose father passed away and their Mama would receive a life insurance check. Mama wants to buy a big house and support Beneatha’s education with this check. While Walter wants to invest in a liquor store and improve their financial circumstances with this check but he is not supported by his family. Beneatha devotes herself in study and wants to change the situation of the black people suffering.