A Raisin In The Sun Essays
The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and the podcast The Problem We All Live With by Nikole Hannah-Jones have many similarities and differences. One of the more notable similarities are in the problems that black people have to face. The problem of racism was a problem then, and still is now and will probably never go away.
Racism was shown more during the podcast than it was in the play, considering that there were only a few scenes throughout the play that it was actually shown. Through the play readers could infer that there was racism taking action when the characters were not at home. But racism was really only shown when Mr. Lindner came into the play, not wanting them to move into his neighborhood because the neighbors did not want their community to be looked at differently. Rather than in the podcast when the students were changing schools, the parents at the new school seemed very much opposed to allowing them to join their kids at the school. The parents said that the new students would bring violence and bad things to their school. Although, the kids at the new school themselves did not seem to mind the new students joining them. The state had not tried to resolve the school segregation problem until recently, which says something about their government. They would rather have the white parents be satisfied, than the minority . students not being aloud a decent education.
A way that the play and podcast are similar is that Walter and Maria stand up for what they want. Walter’s dream is that he wants to be able to support his family, he wants a material life. Maria just wants an education, but a racist bully gets in the way of her dream coming true. But what they do that makes them similar is that they prove everyone wrong in the end. Walter even if he doesn’t have the business he dreamed of, his family is living in a nice neighborhood, and is taken care of by two supportive women. Maria ponders on the idea of leaving the new school because of all the racist comments she is getting, but decides to stay because if she left, she’d let the bully win. Maria’s action may have helped the bullying to not rise to an even higher extent, where the bully would learn she can get to others. But Maria didn’t let that happen.
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