Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Hansberry/Setting in ”Raisin in the Sun”. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 3 page research paper/essay that explores the significance of the ghetto setting in Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khghrai.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
52). The title of the play comes from Langston Hughess poem, which "compares a dream deferred too long to a raisin rotting in the sun" (Ardolino 181). The play
concerns how the dreams and ambitions of this African American family have been deferred by racism and also the familys aspiration, led by the family matriarch, Lena, to escape the
ghetto and find a better life in a home in Clybourne Park, an all-white neighborhood. The ghetto setting is pictured in the play as symbolic of racism in general, that
is, as blocking their dreams and aspirations. This portrayal brings up the question of what ghetto life was like in Chicago at this time. By the 1920s, a "cluster
of adjoining neighborhoods" on the South Side of Chicago had coalesced into a ghetto known as the "Black Belt" (Bennett). Discriminatory real-estate policies and the "threat of violence" kept Black
Americans firmly segregated in this section (Bennett). Other than dilapidated older buildings, African Americans were restricted in their access to housing to "grim high-rise apartment" complexes that were located in
Black neighborhoods were "government had created a second ghetto" (Radford). Around the turn of the twentieth century, African Americans were drawn by the thousands toward Chicago in the hopes
of escaping poverty and racism (Fanuzzi). Their lives in improved in some ways from life in the South, but they found that if they attempted to live outside the ghetto,
they were meant with violence. In 1951, a white mob set fire to a building, burning it to the ground, simply because it was home to one African American resident
(Fanuzzi). As all other housing was closed to them, it is not surprising that by the 1950s, life in the ghetto was extremely crowded. Apartments that had originally been
...