![]() There you may take one piece of gold.’Īs it landed, the sun set behind the island. ‘I will take you to the Island of the Sun. There, as he gazed towards the west, towards the setting sun, a bird appeared from its bright rays, beating its wings, coming closer. When he came to that mountain he sat upon a rock and waited.Īfter a while he felt a rush of air and a beating of wings was heard. The older brother set off up through the forest. ‘Where did you find this wealth, this land?’ There he reared pigs, cows, and a few hens. The young brother took that piece of gold and went down out of the forest, and there he bought a small piece of land. He put it in his basket and climbed onto the back of the great bird.Īway from the island the great bird flew.īack to the mountain the great bird flew. ![]() To the Island of the Sun the great bird flew.Īs the bird landed, the sun set behind the island which glittered brightly, and the boy took one piece of gold. ![]() He climbed onto the back of the bird and the bird took off.Īway from the mountain the great bird flew. There you may take one piece of gold before I bring you back.’ ‘Then climb on my back,’ said the mighty bird, ‘and I will carry you to the Island of the Sun. He felt the beating of air, the rush of air. There he sat upon a rock gazing out towards the west where the sun was setting.Īs he sat there all alone he felt a rush of air from above and he looked and there was a bright bird flying down towards him. One day, the young brother climbed through the forest to the top of the mountain. He would go into the forest and chop wood and sell it in exchange for a little rice in the marketplace. When the farmer died, the older brother took all of his land for himself leaving the younger brother with nothing except a basket and a sharp knife with which he could cut firewood. The older son was selfish and greedy, while the younger son was kind and generous. This primary source set includes photographs, documents, and news footage that provide context for the challenges characters face in the play.There was once a farmer who had two sons. It has since become one of the most frequently taught, most enduring works of American drama. In its own day, the play won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle award for best play of 1959 and was nominated for a number of Tony Awards. ![]() When A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959, it brought the daily struggles of African American life to the overwhelmingly white Broadway audience, while also attracting an unprecedented African American audience. Hansberry based this work on her family’s own experiences with housing discrimination and racially motivated restrictive covenants in Chicago’s Washington Park neighborhood, litigated in the U.S. It explores themes of discrimination, assimilation, black pride, gender, and sacrifice its title is a reference to the Langston Hughes poem, “Harlem” (“A Dream Deferred”). Set in the postwar era, the play follows the family’s struggles with poverty and their decision to move to a single-family home in the all-white neighborhood of Clybourne Park. Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play, A Raisin in the Sun (1959), tells the story of the Youngers, three generations of an African American family living together in a small apartment on Chicago’s South Side.
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