Universidade Federal do Ceará

Centro de Humanidades I
DELILT
Disciplina: Literatura em Língua Inglesa
Prof ª:  Dolores Aronovich
Aluna: Layla Belissa Gonçalves de Oliveira
 Portfolio about “A raisin in the sun” by Lorraine Hansberry.

The Hansberry play takes place in Chicago around 1930 and when analyzing the
context we have a society segregated in several aspects, I believe that the facts that
happen in the work can be a reality experienced by the author himself, The play has
several interesting aspects about the reality of black people such as discrimination,
assimilation, and also the aim of the American dream.

The characters in the play are aware that they live in a society that does not value
the black person and that there are certain precautions to be taken mainly if we take into
account the plot of the story, a family of black people who move to a mostly white
neighborhood in the moments of racial segregation. The question of the black person
assimilated as the character George, who would be a black person who develops his
efforts to try to integrate himself into society, but we know that this is not the case.

Firstly, it is very easy for white people to ridicule black roots and claim that black
people must follow certain standards, which are imposed by whites for whites who try
to compel blacks to follow. The assimilated black may even try to fit into these patterns,
but the harsh reality is that even if whites adapt or readapt, they have determined other
patterns that black people have failed to adapt to. is exactly a phrase that I heard during
a series “Every time we get a chance to move ahead, they move the finish line. Every
time”. The character Beneatha, on the contrary, is black girl that expressing hate(s)
assimilationists black peoples, because this is ashamed of his heritage. This character,
assuming her natural hair, recognizes the beauties present in her heritage, which George
mocks in many moments.
 By contrast, we have Joseph Asagai, a black man who is proud of his roots and
encourages Beneatha to continue his process of valorization and knowledge about
himself and consequently his Africanizes. The invitation he makes for her to go home
with him, making reference to Africa as home, shows his interest in making this re
connection with his ancestors, with his story, "Come home with me ... to Africa." Even
showing interest in the invitation, until the end of the play we do not have this
confirmation whether she goes with her affair or not, within the context in which this
moment happens we see that Beneatha still does not feel far away from the point of
thinking of Africa as his home. This situation is totally understandable because this
process of recognizing yourself as black and being proud of your characteristics that are
constantly criticized is a painful and time-consuming moment.