Take notes on the play, including all items below, on looseleaf paper. Be sure to label them clearly
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- Main Characters: Describe the main characters in notes format.
- Setting: Describe the setting in notes format.
- Define these in notes format. Act I, Scene 1
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- Literary Terms: Explain how these terms relate to the play, its characters and its main events.
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Name: ________________________________ Score: ___/100 (2: Organization, 38: Questions, 60: Essay) English 1 Due Date: ________ A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Reading Guide TAKE NOTES ON THE PLAY, INCLUDING ALL ITEMS BELOW, ON LOOSELEAF PAPER. BE SURE TO LABEL THEM CLEARLY. Main Characters: Describe the main characters in notes format. 1. Ruth Younger 2. Travis Younger 3. Walter Lee Younger 4. Beneatha Younger 5. Lena Younger (Mama) 6. Joseph Asagai 7. George Murchison 8. Mrs. Johnson 9. Karl Lindner 10. Bobo 11. Two Moving Men 12. Walter Younger 13. Willy 14. Setting: Describe the setting in notes format. Allusions, Words and Phrases: These are period expressions that may cause confusion and make the play difficult at times to understand. While there are many allusions, especially to the Bible and African history and culture, here are some of the major ones featured. Define these in notes format. Act I, Scene 1: 15. crocheted doilies 16. a settled woman 17. slubbornness (also called a portmanteau word) 18. fly-by-night proposition 19. I don’t want that on my ledger. 20. My girl didn’t come in today. Act I, Scene 2 21. Hay-lo 22. We’ve all got acute ghetto-itis. 23. Mr. Asagai, I am looking for my identity. 24. You don’t have to ride to work on the back of nobody’s streetcar. Act II, Scene 1 25. The lion is waking. 26. Owimoweh 27. Prometheus 28. Gimme some sugar then 29. never been ‘fraid of no crackers Act II, Scene 2 30. Drop the Garbo routine. 31. He’s got a conked head. 32. the nature of quiet desperation (“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”) 33. peckerwoods 34. Booker T. Washington Act II, Scene 3 35. hand-turned hems 36. Thirty pieces and not a coin less. 37. Scarlett O’Hara 38. spread some money ‘round Act III 39. Monsieur le petit bourgeois noir 40. peachy keen, as the ofay kids say 41. sharecroppers 42. You done write his epitaph too. Literary Terms: Explain how these terms relate to the play, its characters and its main events. 43. didactic literature 44. propaganda 45. protagonist 46. hero 47. antagonist 48. conflict 49. suspense, surprise and how it affects the plot 50. unity of action 51. significant action 52. rising action, climax, falling action and denouement 53. peripety or reversal 54. portmanteau word 55. motivation 56. flat character 57. round character 58. Hamartia and hubris 59. rhetorical question 60. irony 61. dramatic irony Short Answer Questions: Choose any three to answer in full details. These will require you to write your answer in paragraphs. Be sure to include details from the play to back up your answer. Include the number of the question you are answering. You may want to consider taking notes as we read, using a list or chart. In literature, as in life, a character may search for a better way of life. Show how two characters from A Raisin in the Sun are searching for a better way of life. Explain what each character is hoping to gain through this search and discuss the ways in which each character attempts to bring about a change in his or her life. Discuss the ways in which the setting of A Raisin in the Sun has a profound effect upon two of the characters. If people can be divided into three groups -- those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened -- apply each of these to the three characters in A Raisin in the Sun who respectively prove that this is so. Often, pressure from other people or from outside forces might compel a person to take an action that he or she might not have taken ordinarily. Discuss a character from A Raisin in the Sun who was pressured into taking an action that he or she might not have taken on his or her own. Show how A Raisin in the Sun deals with the generation gap -- the problems that the older generation have in dealing with the younger generation and vice versa. Discuss the ways in which two characters in A Raisin in the Sun have made adjustments to negative aspects of their environment. These adjustments might be to the character’s physical surroundings, to other people, or to the customs and traditions of the society in which they live. Sometimes something as seemingly trivial as a meeting or a conversation between two people can have a lasting effect upon the life of one or even of both of them. Discuss how either a seemingly unimportant meeting or a casual conversation brings about a significant change in the life of one of the characters in A Raisin in the Sun. Sometimes in one work of literature, we might find two characters who contrast markedly from one another. Discuss two characters from A Raisin in the Sun who are the opposite of each other in their views, beliefs and philosophy of life. Add another ending to the already existing ending of A Raisin in the Sun. 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