Throughout “On Summer” Hansberry ideas about summer have changed a lot from when she was a child from when she was an adult. At the beginning of the story Hansberry does not like summer. She soon realizes that it is not that bad. Hansberry sees all the different qualities that summer has that other seasons do not. A lot of things in her life have changed her perspective on summer. In Hansberry’s opinion, summer is the noblest of all the seasons. This means she thinks highly about summer and she believes it has a lot of great qualities to offer. When Hansberry was a child she did not like summer at all. When she thought of summer she thought of a hot room, too-grainy texture of sand, and really cold waters. Hansberry writes, “For the longest kind of time I simply thought that summer was a mistake” (208). Hansberry was not fond of summer, some nights the went to the park and slept on the grass because it was hot. Then one summer when she was seven or eight her mother took her to see her grandmother. She loved seeing her grandmother and she saw that she loved summer. Every summer that she spent with …show more content…
She started realizing how there are a lot of great qualities about summer. Hansberry grew more fond of summer. Hansberry says summer is the noblest of seasons because it's the seasons with the best qualities. She also believes that when it is summer you can go out and go on adventures. I think noble means having or showing fine qualities and that is why summer is the noblest of all seasons. As an adult Hansberry loves summer and spending time with her grandmother. She looks past all other not so good things and focus on what's good about summer. Hansberry sees summer from other people's point of view and not just focusing on her point of view. She understands more than she did when she was a kid because all she wanted was for her and her grandmother to live to see another summer again
King Solomon wrote wisely, and later was wisely paraphrased by the folk band “The Byrds”, “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven...” (Ecclesiastes 3:1,8). Seasons often represent the periods of a person’s life; birth, youth, age and death. In the short story “Summer” by David Updike, the lake provides an eternal and unchanging witness to Homer’s transition from season to season and from boy to man.
In John Knowles’ novel, A Separate Piece, the main Character, Gene Forrester, has to learn to become friends with his hazardous roommate, Phineas, at his school, Devon, in New Hampshire. The novel is affected by a number of changes, however the largest and most significant change is the change in seasons. In Thomas C. Foster’s novel, How to read literature like a Professor, chapter twenty explains the significance of the seasons. Foster states that, “Summer [symbolizes] adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion,” while, “ winter [symbolizes] old age and resentment and death.” John Knowles’ book A Separate Peace, all aspects of Summer, Fall, and Winter are excellently represented as explained in Thomas C. Foster’s novel, How to read
painting in Chicago and Mexico, before she realized she had no talent for it. Moving to
In “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why?” Edna St. Vincent Millay says that “the summer sang in me” meaning that she was once as bright and lively as the warm summer months. In the winter everyone wants to bundle up and be lazy, but when summer comes along the sunshine tends to take away the limits that the cold once had on us. She uses the metaphor of summer to express the freedom she once felt in her youth, and the winter in contrast to the dull meaningless life she has now. There are many poets that feel a connection with the changing of seasons. In “Odes to the West Wind” Percy Bysshe Shelley describes his hopes and his expectations for the seasons to inspire the world.
Nemiroff, Robert. Introduction. A Raisin in the Sun. By Lorraine Hansberry. New York: Vintage, 1988. 5-14.
Lorraine Hansberry is the author of the play A Raisin in the Sun. This play is very significant because it was the first play written by a black playwright to win the Best Play of the Year Award. Another interesting point about the play is the title. The title A Raisin in the Sun also refers to Langston Hughes poem Harlem. In many ways Langston Hughes’ poem relates to Lorraine Hansberry’s play. In the play a family of black Americans have a chance to move ahead in the cruel prejudiced world. Lorraine Hansberry shows the frustrations that occur when one’s dreams are deferred. The Younger family in the play experiences these times of misery when those dreams are broken.
I feel that Hansberry is trying to send the message that a dream is just a dream unless you try to make it into a reality. Walter Lee showed exactly that when he decided to move into the house. He showed how your dreams can be real if you understand and believe in them until they have become your reality. But when Walter Lee said no to the man who was going to write them a check for a lot of money, it revealed that before you can make your dream real you must overcome the obstacles stopping you from making them real. The idea that you understand and believe in your dream helps overcome those obstacles stopping you and I feel that is Hansberry overall message to her
Kelly, Amanda. "The Art of Social Criticism: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun." University of Michigan. University of Michigan, Winter 2003. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. .
A Raisin in the Sun is written by a famous African- American play write, Lorraine Hansberry, in 1959. It was a first play written by a black woman and directed by a black man, Lloyd Richards, on Broadway in New York. The story of A Raisin in the Sun is based on Lorraine Hansberry’s own early life experiences, from which she and her whole family had to suffer, in Chicago. Hansberry’s father, Carol Hansberry, also fought a legal battle against a racial restrictive covenant that attempted to stop African- American families from moving in to white neighborhoods. He also made the history by moving his family to the white section of Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood in 1938. The struggle of Lorraine Hansberry’s family inspired her to write the play. The title of the play comes from Langston Hughes’s poem which compares a dream deferred too long to a raisin rotting in the sun. A Raisin in the Sun deals with the fact that family’s and individual’s dreams and inspirations for a better life are not confined to their race, but can be identified with by people with all back grounds.
Ardolino, Frank. "Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN." Explicator 63.3 (2005): 181. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.
Scout and Jem display their childishness, and obliviousness when they are first exposed to snow and when they interact with Miss Maudie. During one winter in Maycomb, Jem and Scout experience snow for the first time and have astounded reactions: “The world’s endin’, Atticus please do something! […] No it’s not, [Atticus] said, it’s snowing” (Lee 86). Living in rural Alabama, the Finch children are not accustomed to snow, so when they first experience it, they are completely bewildered as to what snow is. Scout thinks the world is ending, but Atticus reassures her it is just a normal weather pattern. The fact that Scout and Jem don’t know what snow is, gives evidence for their status as innocent children. By experiencing snow for the first time it opens her mind up to a new experience. The snow experience for Scout is also a progression in her life to become a more intelligent, mature person. Later in the novel, the idea of gaining maturity and becoming a young adult presents itself, but in a different situation. After the fire at Miss Maudie’s house is put out, she has a pleasant conversation with Je...
One of the first ideas mentioned in this play, A Raisin In the Sun, is about money. The Younger's end up with no money because of Walter's obsession with it. When Walter decides not to take the extra money he is offered it helps prove Hansberry's theme. Her theme is that money can't buy happiness. This can be seen in Walter's actions throughout the play.
Matthews, Kristin. “The Politics of ‘Home’ in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.” Modern
How would you feel if every single day there was no sun and the sky was just grey? Imagine there being no sun shining to tell what time of day it was, imagine a never ending grey sky. Many things play into the development of the plot in “Searching for Summer,” but the biggest factor that Aiken uses to add to the flow of the plot is the setting and relationships between the different characters.
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