English 215 Spring 2018

Background Info on the play: http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/lorraine-hansberrys-a-raisin-in-the-sun https://theundefeated.com/features/new-documentary-lorraine-hansberry-of-a-raisin-in-the-sun-one-tough-minded-woman/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/05/09/playwright https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/lorraine-hansberry-review-superb-portrait-of-important-playwright-activist-1.16239285 Hansberry on Writing the Play: https://nj.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hans17-ela-writing/lorraine-hansberry-a-raisin-in-the-sun-hansberrys-writing-process/#.WoGoha6nG70

Below are links that would function as strong outside sources: http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/araisininthesun/historicalcontext.html http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/36902365/somewhat-like-war-aesthetics-segregation-black-liberation-and-r aisin-sunhttp://lifeofannekathrin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/race-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun.pdf http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=45950 http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=62331 You can look through these links to see if any may be useful for your paper: https://www.google.com/#q=a+raisin+in+the+sun+scholarly+articles this link will explain how to quote and cite a play in your paper: http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=1751573 American Dream: https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/raisin-sun-quest-american-dream https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/articles/A-Raisin-in-the-Sun/A-Dream-Realized-Hansberrys-iA-Raisin-In-The-Suni/ http://mobile.nytimes.com/bl...

This links provide many articles and resources for The Great Gatsby: http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/great_gatsby_resources.htm http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/resources/critical-materials.html Some more helpful links:  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/10/great-gatsby-fitzgerald-jay-mcinerney https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2015/03/20/why-the-great-gatsby-is-the-great-american-novel/?utm_term=.d4153c7d759f http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald-hl-mencken-20141010-story.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karielle-stephanie-gam/the-great-gatsby-analysis_b_3430967.html https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/to-early-reviewers-the-great-gatsby-was-not-so-great/390252/

Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text. Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:  “ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1). “”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22). ”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48). “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest peopl...

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