Setting analysis

RITS: Visualize the Younger Apartment

The Younger Apartment

Time: Sometime between 1945 and 1958

Place: Southside Chicago

A Raisin in the Sun takes place entirely in the Younger home. Although people come and go,
the audience only sees what goes on inside the apartment.

Directions: Read the introduction, and use the description to draw a layout of the Younger apartment.

• You must include: living room, kitchen area (include the one small window), bedroom on the left,

bedroom on the right, and the shared bathroom.

Additional details (such as the furnishings and who is in what room, etc.) should also be included.

Writing assignment #1 RITS:
What might the size, layout, and number of people living in this household tell us
about the family or the situation of the play?
*Make a claim about the setting of the story as described in the set design.
*Support your claims with a textual examples and explain. (1-2 paragraphs minimum).
*Make sure you use rhetorical analysis and be INSIGHTFUL


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