The majority of African Americans in the mid 20th century definitely lived a hard life. This life was especially compounded by the environment in which they lived. Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" portrays this environment and the effects it has on its occupants with intense detail. Hansberry gives the reader, who has never experienced Southside Chicago in the 50's, a vision of what it must have been like.
Hansberry's play is set in a very poor, drug and alcohol infested area in a Southside Chicago Project. The main characters are the Younger's, an African American family faced with the difficulties of life in the projects. They all dream of a better life without so many worries and obstacles to overcome. Walter Younger one of t
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