A Summary of a Review of 'A Raisin in the Sun'

In  1959, a critic named Brooks Atkinson reviewed the recently produced Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry called ‘ A Raisin in the Sun’. Brooks summarizes the story and the characters personality and traits along with the setting and problem in the story. He then goes into more detail about the story’s characters and how the actors selected to be in the play were carefully chosen. Brooks goes on to say that ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is like a Negro version of another play called ‘The Cherry Orchard’ because they both have to do with the environment the character’s in and how it affects their lives. He also adds that the play is ‘honest’ in that the actors act like real people and not like made up characters from pure imagination. Brooks also commends Ralph Alswang’s skill in making the setting, an apartment, in which the entire story takes place in and how it showed the family’s social status and tastes in culture. Brooks concludes with saying he enjoyed how Hansberry depicted such an intense subject as this with such simplicity that almost any person could watch and understand this play.

A summary of : "It Feels Right..."

9/14/11

A summary of: “It Feels Right…”

Summarized by Emmanuel Perry

            The author David Brooks reflects on a study of 200-some teenagers to see how moral-thinking teenagers is used in day-to-day challenges. They were surprised to find that many of the youth did not use moral thinking for small matters such as cheating on a test or how they would talk to a friend when they are angry. The most heard comments would be those like’ “I don’t know, it would depend on the person, I guess”. However, the article states that even though this is a problem among many young adults, it should grow out of them when they start to become adults.

Many were quick to talk about their moral feelings but hesitant to link these feelings to any broader thinking about a shared moral framework or obligation.  Can you summarize this sentence? Explain what it means.

James Davison Hunter wrote a book called “The Death of Character.” What does that title mean to you? Can you guess what the book is about?

What’s disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues. Do you think it’s bad not to have moral values?

? Do your parents talk to you about setting good moral values?

? Does it feel like you are offending someone when you tell them what they did was bad?