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Racism is defined as a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. Now many pieces of literature that are in the Maine South curriculum involve the subject of race, but the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry puts a different spin on the race issue. A Raisin in the Sun does not use the typical black vs. white scenario, it broadens the subject of race into a group of people and their rank in the social, and economic world. It's about a economically lower class struggling to find that window of opportunity to make their lives better.
Walter is one of the main characters in the play, and throughout the play he struggles to find out who he really is. Walter is similar to the character of Huck Finn. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck tries to find where his place is in society. Huck looks......

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