PRESENTATION OUTLINE
What are the effect of multiple themes on the reader?
How does the author's choices impact the meaning of the text?
We will determine why Hansberry called her play A Raisin in the Sun by reading a poem.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust over-
Like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
Like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Why a dream deferred?
- What central question does the poem ask?
- What is Hughes' message about dreams deferred?
- How do "dreams deferred relate to the American Dream?
- Why do you think Hansberry chose this poem as her preface?
