Shoot me please. Of all the stereotypical racial awareness books, this one is the most bland.

I recommend this book to everyone! Such a wonderful story and beautifully written. I couldn't say enough about it. A must read.

This book was a play about a family under bad conditions. The Youngers, an African-American family, lived in the south of Chicago. In general, the family dealt with financial issues and were in a situation where they thought nothing would be worse. Each member of the Young family was placed in a problem where it would effect someone else. They were also tricked and their money was taken away. Through it all, in the end, the family managed to prevail and had looked forwand to a brighter tomorrow. This book taught me that even if you're put in a situation where everything seems to be at it's worse, you will always go through the bad to have the good.

I read and performed this play as Mama/Lena Younger and won the EMACT Best Actress Award. It was the best acting experience I have ever had. I cannot say enough about the merits of an excellent playwright. Superb writing lends itself beautifully to superb acting.

Rave, praise, adore, applaud.

Also, I remember very distinctly, this is where I learned the world ‘assimilate’ from before its rise in usage.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it shrivel like a raisin in the sun? Be careful, my pretties. We reap what we sow.

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Perfection.

I’ve spent about ten solid minutes trying to think of a way to begin this review. I’ve found myself struggling to think of a brief summary of my feelings for this play, but “perfection” seems to sum it up about as well as any word could.

This play is set in 1950’s Chicago and follows the Younger family as they await a check which forces each member to consider the future and what their dreams’ for it are.

The view we get of the Younger family is flawless in its totality. I don’t mean that we get every bit of information possible about each of these characters’ entire lives, but that the couple days of their lives we see in the play fully encompasses the essence of each character and gives a definitive image of who each of them are as individuals.

Each of these characters are people you could envision—people you may even know. And no matter your background, you will find something to relate to in, at least, one of these characters.

“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning—because that ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ’cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts 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.”

This covers so many topics it’s almost hard to figure out where to start. Basically, if a theme exists, you will find it somewhere in here. This addresses poverty, race, familial discontent, Western beauty standards—specifically in regards to pressures put on Black women, feminism and women’s gender roles, marriage, African heritage and assimilation—this even touches briefly on abortion, among so many other things. And Hansberry manages to do all of this with humor and sass, while retaining the seriousness of each topic and the tragedy of each topic’s necessity in the play.

As relevant today as when it was written.

I just can't feel any sympathy or empathy for Walter Lee; he was so selfish and bitter and unappealing as a character. But thwn I think about how depressed he must've been, how defeated. So, in a way, he was a potent character that involved the reader. All the characters were real, sometimes too real making it difficult to get distance. A good read for sure

Tis okay but it read like a boring dairy entry.

Was great book! Walter made desiccation for their family to live in Cyproince Park in white neighborhoods at end book. You should read it very great book.

This was a different reading experience because it’s a play. Excellent story. I wonder how it would end if it was written today.