I don't know how I made it so long without reading this classic. I'm glad I did!

A companion classic to the play, Hansberry transforms a timeless stage work into a timeless screenplay.

The contextualizing introductions can be skipped or scanned, but serve as a suitable mini-history of this fine writing.

I liked how it kept me entertained and I always had to stop and think,"Whatnext". Also, to me, the vocabulary and grammar the different people used really said something about there lives.

Really a masterpiece. I've never seen the movie (I will now), but the power in the family interactions and what they face is incredible. I should read more screenplays and drama in general. It really grabs you relentlessly.

Great read on poverty, racism and classism. Walter's decision about midway through really emphasized how the poor get poorer. I really enjoyed the different viewpoints of the main characters based on the same struggle. I will likely read this play too. The symbolism of the plant moved me as well.

On a side note, this was the first screenplay I've read (I think) and I was at first very distracted by all the camera notes in between dialogue. However about halfway through, I realized I liked getting a full picture and was playing the movie in my mind.

This book is about a poor, black family living in Chicago after World War II. Lena recieves a check from her husband's insurance after his death. This causes big problems within the family. Walter Lee sees this check as a big opportunity for a business he wants to start. I don't like this book at all. It is a play and is placed in the past. At many points in the book it tended to be very boring. There were a lot of unneccessary details in the book. I do not recommend this book to any one. It you like plays that has a lot of conflict.

Mama was a great matriarch of the family and wanted her family strong. Great, but heartbreaking story of one family trying to rise up and achieve a better life in the face of terrible racism.

Great read!

this is a down home southern play

New insight into the world of the Youngers. If only it was filmed this way.

“when you start measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”

a great play about fighting for the american dream from a black family’s point of view. it shows a family emerging from the cruel shadows of race in a predominately white community and the issues that arise from it.

this poem is titled after langston hughes poem “harlem” — “what happens to a dream deferred? does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” and i think that pretty much sums it up. the younger family’s dream is dying because it hasn’t been realized yet.

also cannot stop singing raisin in the sun to the tune of “islands in the stream” HAHA

A wonderful play showcasing an oft overlooked era in American history. It was fascinating taking a look at the "assimilationist" issue in African American culture.