"A Raisin in the Sun"

"A Raisin in the Sun" (on German: "A Raisin in the Sun") is a play written by the American writer Lorrraine Hansberry. The content of the work, which is also available as a book, deals with the problematic life of an Afro-American working-class family who have to fight against poverty and racist prejudice.

"A Raisin in the Sun" describes the fight against prejudice

• The Afro-American Younger family featured in "A Raisin in the Sun" live in poor conditions in Chicago.
• But then the widow Lena receives a $ 10,000 life insurance check from her deceased husband.
• Lena would like to use this money to move out of the black ghetto, buy a small new house in an area populated by whites and finance her daughter's medical studies.
• But her son Walter has other plans, he wants to invest the money in his shop and no longer be dependent on his further acquisition as the chauffeur of a rich white man.
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• When Lena still buys the house, she breaks up with her son, and Walter leaves the family. Lena offers him the remaining money and so they find each other again; they all move to their new house.
• But the white neighbors do not want black people in their neighborhood and even offer the youngers more money than the house cost to move again. In the play "A Raisin in the Sun", however, the Youngers refuse this offer.
• Walter has meanwhile invested the remaining money in a dubious company, but his partner goes into hiding with all the money.
• This not only destroys Walter's dreams, but also the family's financial basis.

The play was filmed with the same content

• With "A Raisin in the Sun", Lorraine Hansberry created a play that premiered on Broadway in 1959 as the first work by an Afro-American writer.
• The content of the work fascinated the audience and subsequently led Daniel Petrie to make a film. The German title of the film is "A Spot in the Sun".
• The writer Hansberry adapted the content of her play for the script herself.
• The famous American Sidney Poitier played the main role of Walter.

"A Raisin in the Sun" offers a lot of illustrative material for the content and the structure of the play Difficulties caused by racial prejudice and poverty in America from the middle of the last century to the present day result. The play is therefore also valuable learning content for English lessons in schools.