1. A Raisin In The Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Marcille Bachman
English 2
Period 2

2. Thesis
 Lorraine Hansberry is trying to show us that, even
though there will always be prejudice in this world, it‟s
important to overcome it and continue to fight against it,
as shown in A Raisin In The Sun.

3. Newspaper/Magazine Article
 http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/19/politics/obamazimmerman/index.html?iref=allsearch
 African Americans all over America are distressed about the
acquittal of George Zimmerman, after he shot and killed black
teenager Trayvon Martin last year. They feel that this trial is more
about race than it is about justice and what actually happened.
They fear that the judicial system exonerated Zimmerman simply
because he was a white man, and Martin was black. Barak Obama
was even mentioning how he could have been Trayvon Martin 35
years ago, revealing his own fear of the prejudice behind this trial.
Many blacks are fearing that this is a prejudice case that was won
by the white man simply because of his color, rather than facts.
They fear that prejudice is now effecting justice. This article is
explaining the fears of the African American people, and it describes
their fears of prejudice. Prejudice is the theme I chose for this
project, and this article so clearly relates to the theme of prejudice,
as even the president of the United States is saying that he‟s
worried about the bigotry in this case.

4. Quotes
 “LINDNER- Well-you see our community is made up of
people who‟ve worked hard as the dickens for years to build
up that little community. They‟re not rich and fancy people;
just hard-working, honest people who don‟t really have
much but those little homes and a dream of the kind of
community they want to raise their children in. Now, I
don‟t say we are perfect and there is a lot wrong in some of
the things they want. But you‟ve got to admit that a man,
right or wrong, has the right to want to have the
neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. And at the
moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there
feel that people get along better, take more of a common
interest in the life of the community, when they share a
common background. I want you to believe me when I tell
you that race prejudice simply doesn‟t enter into it. It is a
matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or
wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned
that our Negro families are happier when they live in their
own communities.” (Hansberry 117)

5. Quotes (cont.)
 “LINDNER- (Looking around at the hostile faces and
reaching and assembling his hat and briefcase) Well-I
don‟t understand why you people are reacting this way.
What do you think you are going to gain by moving into
a neighborhood where you just aren‟t wanted and where
some elements-well-people can get awful worked up
when they feel that their whole way of life and
everything they‟ve ever worked for is threatened.”
(Hansberry 119)

6. Quotes (cont.)
 “JOHNSON- I guess y‟all seen the news what‟s all over the colored
paper this week…
“MAMA- No-didn‟t get mine yet this week.
“JOHNSON- (Lifting her head and blinking with the spirit of catastrophe)
You mean you ain‟t read „bout them colored people that was bombed
out their place there?
(RUTH straightens with concern and takes the paper and reads it.
JOHNSON notices her and feeds commentary)
JOHNSON- Ain‟t it something how bad these here white folks is getting
here in Chicago! Lord, getting so you think you right down in
Mississippi! (With a tremendous and rather insincere sense of
melodrama) „Course I thinks it‟s wonderful how our folks keeps on
pushing out. You hear some of these Negroes „round here talking „bout
how they don‟t go where they ain‟t wanted and all that-but not me,
honey! (This is a lie) Wilhemenia Othella Johnson goes anywhere, any
time she feels like it! (With head movement for emphasis) Yes I do!
Why if we left it up to these here crackers, the poor n****** wouldn‟t
have nothing.” (Hansberry 100)

7. Quotes (cont.)
 “WALTER- And we have decided to move into our house
because my father-my father-he earned it for us brick by
brick. (MAMA has her eyes closed and is rocking back
and forth as though she were in church, with her head
nodding the Amen yes) We don‟t want to make no
trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to
be good neighbors. And that‟s all we got to say about
that. We don‟t want your money.” (Hansberry 148)
 ((When Walter called Lindner back to the house,
originally to take the deal about staying away from
Clybourne Park because they‟re a black family))

8. Visual Representation

9. Visual Representation (cont.)
 “The world can be so BLACK and WHITE… Sometimes
we just need to blur the lines and find the GRAY in the
middle!” That‟s the quote that I added to this picture I
made, which is supposed to symbolize that, even with
the differences in race, we need to look past the colors
of a person‟s skin and realize that we are all still people.
Which is sort of like finding the gray in the middle of
black and white. Just find what‟s the same about
people, rather than the differences, and the world would
no longer have to deal with prejudice the way it does
now.