Raisn In The Sun Review

                                                          A Raisin In The Sun Review
                                                                       John Rick
                                                                        Grade 9
                                                                        10/12/11

This review written by Brooks Atkinson covers what was good about Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the sun. She thinks that the play covers some, “ serious problems”. One of the things she covers is how honest the play was. How a, ”Negro family in the south side of Chicago”, lives at that time. I feel this part of the passage was the most meaningful. I deem the fact that this is the truth. This play definitely was based on how a, ”Negro family in the south side of Chicago”, lives. How do I know this? The 1950s and 1960s were times where there was mass discrimination. Another problem this play talks about that she also covers that the Younger’s are, “human beings who want, on the one hand, to preserve their family pride and, on the other hand, to break out of the poverty that seems to be their fate.” I imagine this means the family has a lot under their belt and in the process of getting everything they need done, they need to preserve the pride that their family has, and at a time like then that seems difficult to do while going through all of the stress.

John Rick

9^th grade English

9/12/11

The comparison

( an essay about the connection of a song, a poem, and my life

Bell Word: common

Echoes: the same, very similar



Hook: the song “For a Dancer”, The Poem, “A Dream Deferred”, and my life what they have in common

CM: that’s what this essay is about

CM: What do they have that’s the same

SD: They all sound to be so different

CM: The name for a dancer and the name a dream deferred different

CS:I would like to Describe things that very similar

Body Paragraph one

Bell: common

Echoes: nearly the same, similar

TS: The song for a dancer and a dream deferred have 2 completely different names so it was difficult to find things they have in common

SD: The first thing they have in common: Depressing

CM: For a Dancer wife committing suicide

CM: Dream differed about someone’s dream never happening

SD: Also similar have in some way the same meaning

CM: Dream deferred persons dream dying

CM: For a dancer wife dying

SD: Finally nearly the same is they are both very well written

CM: Langston Hughes viewed the possibilities a different way like how he described it

CM: Jackson Browne Really showed how felt about wife committing suicide

CS: SO After really thinking the two have more in common than expected



Body Paragraph 2

Bell: common

Echoes: identical, no different

TS: Song for a dancer and Dream deferred have a few things in common with my life

SD: I can compare my life to song for a dancer

CM: My grandpa dying to his wife’s death

CM: How it happened after I was born

SD: Dream deferred to my life

CM: my dream to finish my tree house

CM: My dream was a too heavy load and sag too much and blew over during the recent hurricane

SD: Lastly they are all written

CM: A dream Deferred written to describe a dying dream and a son for a dancer written to mourn the death of his wife

CM: My life Is still a book to be finished and I hope its not as saddening as the others

CS: My life is a book with no main idea and has a lot to still be written

Concluding paragraph

TS: how I descried the similar things of all three

CM: there may be other things

CS: There are many songs and poems but there are none exactly the same as theses two