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A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry · Grades 9–10

The words are easy.

That is what makes this play sneaky.

You can understand every sentence in A Raisin in the Sun and still walk away wondering what you missed, because most of the real conversation is happening underneath the conversation.

Money means dignity.
A house means possibility.
A plant is not just a plant.
And the very polite man at the door is carrying an entire system of racial exclusion with him.

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