Tham khảo tài liệu 'outlinging essay 5', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CBEST PRACTICE EXAM 1 Section 1 Reading Comprehension Answer questions 1-8 on the basis of the following passage. 1 Produced in 1959 Lorraine Hansberry s play A Raisin in the Sun was a quietly revolutionary work that depicted African-American life in a fresh new and realistic way. The play made her the youngest American the first African-American and the fifth woman to win the New York Drama Critic s Circle Award for Best Play of the Year. In 1961 it was produced as a film starring Sydney Poitier and has since become a classic providing inspiration for an entire generation of African-American writers. 2 Hansberry was not only an artist but also a political activist and the daughter of activists. Born in Chicago in 1930 she was a member of a prominent family devoted to civil rights. Her father was a successful real-estate broker who won an anti-segregation case before the Illinois Supreme Court in the mid-1930s and her uncle was a Harvard professor. In her home Hansberry was privileged to meet many influential cultural and intellectual leaders. Among them were artists and activists such as Paul Robeson . DuBois and Langston Hughes. 3 The success of A Raisin in the Sun helped gain an audience for her passionate views on social justice. It mirrors one of Hansberry s central artistic efforts that of freeing many people from the smothering effects of stereotyping by depicting the wide array of personality types and aspirations that exist within one Southside Chicago family. A Raisin in the Sun was followed by another play produced in 1964 The Sign in Sidney Brustein s Window. This play is about an intellectual in Greenwich Village New York City a man who is open-minded and generous of spirit who as Hansberry wrote cares about it all. It takes too much energy not to care. 4 Lorraine Hansberry died on the final day of the play s run on Broadway. Her early death at the age of 34 was unfortunate as it cut short a brilliant and promising career one that even in its .
