A Raisin in the Sun

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  Alright, guys.

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  So today we're gonna go over a reason in the

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  sun and the just an inspection.

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  Uh, this is the next vote that we're gonna be

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  reading and all the information that you see here today,

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  I This is the notes assignments that you're gonna be

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  in putting this into your notebook that you used for

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  the Great Gatsby.

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  Okay. All right.

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  So Lorraine Hansberry So she is the author of the

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  book. She was born in May 19 in 1930 and

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  she passed away in June 12th 1965.

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  She actually died at a very young age, 34 years

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  old. I say young, cause that's my page.

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  Um and she died of pancreatic cancer.

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  She was the four.

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  She was a youngest of four Children.

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  She grew up in south side of Chicago.

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  Her parents were activists, meaning that they you know, they

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  stood up for civil rights and they set up for

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  what was right.

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  And s o er, when she decided to become a

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  writer, she moved to New York City.

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  And that is where she wrote her first drama.

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  She wrote a the first drama by an African American

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  woman that was produced in Broadway at the age of

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  29. So that's a big deal.

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  And by far, um, a Raisin in the Sun, which

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  is the play that we're going to be reading is

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  her best known work.

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  It's a picture of her.

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  I smile, Um, and then a little bit of more

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  information about her.

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  So in 1937 her brother, her brother, her father broke

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  the law by purchasing a home in a white neighborhood.

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  Remember, there was such a thing in 1937.

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  And, um, so they had a whole case, and this

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  case went up to the Supreme Court and he actually

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  the family, the hands very family won this case.

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  Um, and they live there.

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  However, later on in her life, Hansberry describes her life

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  in this neighborhood as a hellishly hospital.

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  White neighborhood.

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  Excuse me.

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  All right.

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  So, uh, what is this book about?

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  So the play debut did in 1957.

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  So it was prior to the civil rights movements that

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  we talked about last week.

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  Um, in, uh, during the Vietnam War, we received the

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  New York dramas.

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  Critics choice of war for Best Player of the year.

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  and a philosopher described the play as never before in

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  America, in American theater history has so much truth of

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  black people's lives been seen on stage.

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  So it was well liked for everyone.

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  Um, and then we talked about the American dream.

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  So you can see in this picture here that it

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  says there's no way like the American dream and notice

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  there's a white family, you know, 2.5 kids because they

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  have the dog.

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  Um And then there are all these African American people

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  walking in line before job, maybe for housing.

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  Who knows what, But it's just ironic that there's no

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  way like the American dream.

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  And, you know, it was the American dream saying that

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  during this time it was the American dream was for

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  white people.

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  Um, so just in interesting picture toe analyze A no

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  overview of the place of the play is essentially about

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  the about American dream, and that's why you'll be noticing

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  that it's a constant theme that I'm gonna be asking

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  you about to think about.

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  And that's why you have the discussion board this week

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  is to watch the video with Michelle Obama and Steve

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  Harvey and their point of view of the American dream.

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  And which one do you like best?

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  Which one do you find the most inspirational?

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  Um, the name of the Book of the plate takes

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  its name from Langston Hughes poem Harlem, and we're gonna

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  be going over that poem next week.

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  Each member of the house has a separate dream.

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  We talked about this in the house hole.

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  There are believed 45 characters, and they all have a

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  dream. And that's normal.

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  We all have a dream you would in this, you

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  know, in your house.

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  Right now on.

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  And then tension in the household rises because everyone wants

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  to achieve their dream.

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  And the resource is air limited.

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  You know, um, you know, nowadays you may have, you

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  know, two Children who both want to be professional athletes.

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  Well, I'm sure your mom has a dream about maybe

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  having her her kitchen remodeled and his in.

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  Your dad has a dream about, you know, being able

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  to retire at a young age.

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  And then the two Children have their dream of becoming

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  professional athletes.

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  But there's only money for one DRI moods dream.

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  Do you follow?

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  Very difficult.

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  It's a very difficult position to put parents in or

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  grandparent's or even a child.

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  Because sometimes you know, we think, Well, maybe I can,

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  you know, put my dream on the back burner and,

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  you know, just allow my sibling or allow my parents

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  or allow somebody to do what they want to do.

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  But at what point do we put ourselves first?

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  Or does somebody put us first rate on?

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  Didn't think Well, okay, next slide.

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  So it is based in the housing, um, the housing

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  lifestyle at the time of the 19 fifties.

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  And it's something that you should.

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  This is a picture of 19 fifties Chicago sites site

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  South Side, where the play is, um is it takes

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  place, and this is what it looked like during that

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  time. This was public housing that the government had set

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  up for, uh, predominantly black neighborhoods.

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  So themes that we see we see segregation and poverty.

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  You saw the picture of people weren't living in the

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  richest areas, right?

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  Um, definitely family.

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  And then the value and purpose of dreams.

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  Um, the characters you see, Walter, who is the protagonist

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  and at times, the antagonised he's quick to anger and

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  hot tamper.

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  His dream is to only liquor store.

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  So that's his dream, right?

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  And you have Mama Walter's mother and head of the

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  household. Her dream is to own a house with a

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  garden. Not a bit, that that's such a huge dream.

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  She just wants a normal house with a garden.

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  Um, and why not?

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  And then beneath Eah, I think her name is challenges

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  both gender and racial stereotypes.

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  You know, she one.

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  She's a black woman.

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  So during the time she had a lot going against

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  her. But she somehow in this place, she challenges this,

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  this both gender and racial stereotypes.

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  So I'm interested.

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  I'm interested to see what how she challenges them.

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  And then her dream is to become a doctor.

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  Right? So that's big dream.

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  Um, And then finally, um, let's see local backs a

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  picture of it.

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  So, um, characters, The last characters Ruth Ruth is married

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  to Walter and represents the, you know, the typical 19

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  fifties woman.

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  Remember what I told you having a washing machine or

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  having a vacuum was a big deal during that time

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  and is pregnant and is considering an abortion because she

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  does not want her dream to be ruined.

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  Um, And the picture here that, you see, there was

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  a movie, uh, called a raisin in the sun puff.

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  Daddy was in it.

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  And, um, other big deal, um, artists, Uh, I'm sorry.

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  Movie movie eight will be stars.

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  So, um, if you're interested in watching it, I again,

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  I don't know how accurate it will be.

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  I haven't seen it, and I haven't read the books

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  that will be reading it together.

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  All right, so that is raising in the sun's introduction.

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  So please make sure that all the notes that you

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  see that you saw in this president go into your

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  notebook and then submit a picture of all your notes.

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  Okay? The directions are all on campus.