A Raisin in the Sun
Movie Adaptation w/ Sean Combs
Extra Credit
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What was the main point the author wanted you to get from reading/watching
her work, i.e. what was the theme of the story? In your own words!!!!!
2. Why did Mama call Walter a disgrace to his father's memory?
3. Are the characters in A Raisin in the Sun stereotypes? If so, explain the usefulness of
employing stereotypes in the story. If they are not, explain how they merit
individuality.
4. The play, A Raisn in the Sun, is prefaced by a Langston Hughes poem, “Dream
Deferred”.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
How does the play/movie illustrate the theme of the poem (Questions 1)?
Why did Lorraine Hansberry title her play “A Raisin in the Sun” after Hughes poem? What
point is she trying to make?