Read the prompt on pg 97 of the Jago text, followed by the stage directions for Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. Answer the questions found in the prompt for this passage in your blog response. 
Champ Forever
10/3/2018 01:59:32 pm
"A raisin in the sun" is about a living room old, but it was refurnished but this play is actually giving a messege about something which is why the character's play an important role in conveying a messege. Both the characters and the living room are aging they have lived their lives doing what they were supposed to. As the time is passing both of them are wearing down that beauty they had it's loosing, sure it was refurnished but not at that extent which would make it new once again. So were the characters they might have gotten sick or ill at any moment but they recovered both of them have served and now they just want rest. This play is talking about ww2 and the present that the people are tired like that living room and want peace they don't wanna get involve in any of this war and now that the war is over they have spent a lot of time serving and have spent a lot of energy and now their time is coming near. The introduction of this play is a door to a new dimenssion of the play. The playwriter could add that one of the character dies because of the cancer and now the other characters are frightened that this can happen to them and in the end one of the character had bope and survived but the other had no hope and lost.
Edgar Wright
10/3/2018 07:27:44 pm
The setting of A raisin in the sun is more than just a background. There is a lot of Characterization used in the way it is constructed that allows us to understand the families situation better. The play makes the contrast of when the apartment was first built to now. Saying things like, “the furnishings of this room were actually selected with care and love and even hope… Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies” (Hansberry). This shows us that the current family are not able to keep the apartment clean, possibly due to financial reasons. As well as the overabundance of residents that have destroyed what polish the apartment used to have. Specific rooms are also changed. “At right is a second room(which in the beginning of the life of the apartment was probably a breakfast room) which serves as a bedroom for Walter and his wife, Ruth” (Hansberry). The current family definitely is not able to worry about a breakfast room as they need all the space they can get to fit in as many people as possible. This setting speaks a lot about what the characters are and struggle through, and also set up the themes that will be explored as the story progresses.
Name
10/3/2018 08:00:40 pm
In A Rasin in the Sun, the setting serves as a characterization of the family. The way that the house is arranged gives insight into the characters themselves. The text goes back and forth on how the Younger apartment is now versus how it was when they first got there. In the first couple of paragraphs, the reader can infer that over time, more and more people have moved into the home resulting in the great “wear” of the apartment. “Weariness has, in fact, won in this room. Everything has been washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too often”This could be connected to the characters in that they be “worn” of the life they live. For example the character Ruth, “it is apparent that life has been little that she expected, and disappointment has already begun to hang in her face”
tucker
10/3/2018 08:49:18 pm
In A Raisin in the Sun, it can be seen that the setting resembles the characters’ lives over time. Furthermore, the setting displays the characters in their tired, worn out state. When discussing the furniture in the room, Hansberry states that “their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years…” In learning this, it can be inferred that the people who live on this furniture are also worn out. Specifically, the character Ruth is described to look like “disappointment has already begun to hang in her face,” showing that she is already tired of life’s challenges. It is mentioned that Ruth is only thirty, however, much like the furniture in the apartment, it is drained and worn.
Septemebr
10/3/2018 08:53:32 pm
The setting of this ply helps to portray the tired, wariness of the characters. All the characters are hard-working, blue-collar workers. The setting conveys a sense of a fully lived life. The characters are all busy and have to deal with a lot of stress, just like the stresses exerted upon a room where too many people have lived in it. The way the setting is described, it is almost as if the room was a character. The room is presonified to have emotions and character traits, just as a character would be described. This opening scene suggests that thislay will discuss the struggle of minorities during the 1930s and the conditions they had to endure.
V.Steele
10/3/2018 08:55:46 pm
In A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry describes the living room as a personified character. Although the room is composed of inanimate objects, they are explained as being worn, tired, and sullen. Hansberry uses juxtaposition in order to further exemplify how worn the room is. She states describes the living room as almost being dead or archaic to the point of no longer having adequate use. This shows a lot about the characters in this play because it reflects their own personal feelings. When Hansberry says “Weariness has, in fact, won in this room,” she means the feelings of the characters are so overwhelmingly powerful, they were able to translate over to the entire room. Even the objects in the room began to give off a sulky energy. Ruth, especially has drawn from this energy in the room, because Hansberry describes her life as being “little that she expected.” This leaves her disappointed and dissatisfied with her current life in the is dreary home, surrounded by dreary people. This opening section suggests that the ideas discussed later in the text will be about someone's dissatisfaction with their current lives and perhaps them trying to better their lives in some way.
Phantom
10/3/2018 11:10:37 pm
For Raisin in the Sun, the setting is a small house that once had a new welcoming aura, but is now worn down and rustic. Ruth in turn had been proclaimed as exceptionally pretty for someone of her stature, but is about to be known to the people as a "settled woman". Ruth, like the home, had possibilities for her future, but the settlement with her son shows she can no longer hold a life just for herself.
E.Dickinson
10/4/2018 10:44:47 am
In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the author describes the room as being "typical," "undistinguished," and "once loved." She also says the carpet has fought back against being covered so as to reveal its weariness. These descriptions translate to the characters because, if you've read the book, you'll know that the characters in the book have been through their fair shares of hardship. Like the room, they are undistinguished from the rest of the people living around them- they're all miserable. Like the carpet, they fought back against all the people trying to get rid of them, but they came out worn and stood together with "depressing uniformity." Just from this first passage, one can tell that the rest of the book is going to be about them struggling even more and perhaps even beginning to thrive. Comments are closed.
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