Thesis: The play reveals the false reality of the American Dream as the family grapples to survive in their society.
Social issue from play: false reality of the american dream in African American families
Social issue today: american dream in immigrants
Social issue in play: upward movement in classification in african americans as society is segregated
Social issue today: upward movement in classification in jobs, society, education
Citations:
Grimm, Matthew. "School Daze." American Demographics, vol. 26, no. 1, Feb. 2004, pp. 42-43. EBSCOhost, webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=12185513&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
Nowrouzi, Tayebeh1, et al. "In Search of Equality: A Dream Deferred for African Americans in a Raisin in the Sun." Theory & Practice in Language Studies, vol. 5, no. 11, Nov. 2015, pp. 2269-2276. EBSCOhost, doi:10.17507/tpls.0511.10
Gigi Paniagua
March 29, 2018
Daniel Curtis-Cummins
The Fake American Dream
In the play, Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, it accurately presents the hardships and truthfulness of being in a segregated society in America during the 1950s. People around the world have an ideal imagination that living in America is being wealthy and having a big family. The reality of this is that there is much racism and segregation, the upward mobility of social class, and many sacrifices taken. The play depicts the false reality of the American Dream as the family grapples to survive in their society.
- body paragraph 1
- upward mobility of social class
- younger family moving from their small apartment to a white neighborhood
- essential to american dream
- walter younger is embarrassed of his job as a chauffeur
- poverty
- Body paragraph 2
- racism/segregation
- segregated neighborhood
- Walter feels like he doesn't have a chance in the world compared to other white males his age
- act 1 scene 2 pg 73-74
- Body paragraph 3
- sacrifices taken
- abortions
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