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Task 4. Try to Connect…<br />

Reflect on this poem written by Langston Hughes. How do you associate it to<br />

the story, “The Raisin in the Sun”?<br />

Dreams Deferred<br />

What happens to a dream deferred?<br />

Does it dry up<br />

Like a raisin in the sun?<br />

Or fester like a sore—<br />

And then run?<br />

Does it stink like rotten meat?<br />

Or crust and sugar over—<br />

Like a syrupy sweet?<br />

Maybe it just sags<br />

Like a heavy load,<br />

Or does it explode?<br />

DRAFT<br />

LANGSTON HUGHES<br />

A Raisin in the Sun<br />

Lorraine Hansberry<br />

April 10, 2014<br />

Characters<br />

(In Order of Appearance)<br />

RUTH YOUNGER<br />

TRAVIS YOUNGER<br />

WALTER LEE YOUNGER (BROTHER)<br />

BENEATHA YOUNGER<br />

LENA YOUNGER (MAMA)<br />

JOSEPH ASAGAI<br />

GEORGE MURCHISON<br />

KARL LINDNER<br />

BOBO<br />

MOVING MEN<br />

The action of the play is set in Chicago’s Southside, sometime between World War II and the<br />

present.<br />

Act I<br />

Scene One: Friday Morning<br />

Scene Two: The following morning<br />

(RUTH comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection. Mama and Beneatha both<br />

turn to look at her)

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