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What happens to a dream deferred?� This quote from the famous poem by
Langston Hughes, �A Montage of a Dream Deferred,� represents the core of the play A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry. When writing this Chicago set drama, Hansberry chose to use a line from Hughes� famous poem to create her title: A Raisin in the Sun. The entirety of the play is about an African American family living in the ghettos of Chicago. Mama, Walter, and Beneatha, three of the play�s main characters, all make their individual dreams known to the readers by stating them various times throughout the play (Kohorn 1). Hughes� poem ponders upon numerous questions that are surely on the readers mind as they venture through this particular play. Although Hughes offered many alternate answers to the question, �What happens to a dream deferred,� as seen below, Hansberry supports the last view in this poem (Mauro 1):
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The play depicts many different instances of dreams being......

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