Section A: A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Select one prompt from below. Your response should be at least 400 words in length and use direct textual evidence as support. Feel free to incorporate any other sources as support as well. Simply cut and paste the question you plan to answer into the text box before your answer.

1) What are the implications of the events at the end of A Raisin in the Sun? How has Walter changed throughout the play? What is the significance of his final decision and why do you think Lorraine Hansberry chose to end the play this way?

2) In what ways does the idea of double consciousness affect the attainability of the American Dream? OR Which character in the play is most representative of DuBois’s “double consciousness”? Explain.

3) Given what you now know about the historical context of mid 20th century U.S. racial formations and inequality in post-WWII Chicago, what are the limits of the ideology of the American Dream when understood along the lines of race, class, and gender? In what ways does this play dramatize the limits of the Dream for the black community in this context? Feel free to include a discussion of Coates’ “A Case for Reparations”

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