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How many of you remember reciting the poem Harlem?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore and then run…
On Monday, February 25, 2008, watch A Raisin in the Sun on ABC at 7 p.m. After watching this wonderful screen play, that originated as a play, write a one page summary on what you thought about the movie. Tell about the ending and if you thought is should have ended differently and tell how the movie made you feel.
Look at this video trailer to see who stars in the movie! Click HERE.
Here is the plot:
The story is based upon a family’s own experiences growing up in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. The title comes from the opening lines of “Harlem”, a poem by Langston Hughes:
What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?
The play concerns the working-class Younger family, who dream of leaving behind the dilapidated tenement apartment where they have lived for decades. The son Walter, a chauffeur, dreams of making a fortune by investing in a liquor store but foolishly gives his money to a con artist. His sister Beneatha, a somewhat flighty college student, tries to find her identity and embraces the “back to Africa” philosophy of a Nigerian friend. Their mother, the matriarch, dreams of buying a home, and does so with her late husband’s insurance money, but the house is in an all-white neighborhood. Their racist future neighbors hire a man named Karl Lindner as a “Welcoming Committee” to try to buy them out to prevent the neighborhood’s integration. However, Walter takes a stand and refuses to be intimidated or bought out; in this, he stops deferring his family’s dreams and helps them advance. The central idea of the play is concerned with combating the myth of black contentment. The stress of poverty is vividly portrayed through the tight quarters as five people are squeezed together onstage into a one room apartment.
This assignment will be due Wednesday, February 27, 2008 (more…)
