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    This document provides background information on the American Dream and Langston Hughes' poem "A Dream Deferred" which explores what might happen if a dream is put off or delayed. The poem uses similes to compare a deferred dream to a raisin drying up in the sun, a sore that festers and runs, rotten meat, and syrup that has crusted over. It also suggests a dream might just sag like a heavy load or explode. A performance task then analyzes the comparisons made in the poem and their connection to Hughes' life and times.

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    This document provides background information on the American Dream and Langston Hughes' poem "A Dream Deferred" which explores what might happen if a dream is put off or delayed. The poem uses similes to compare a deferred dream to a raisin drying up in the sun, a sore that festers and runs, rotten meat, and syrup that has crusted over. It also suggests a dream might just sag like a heavy load or explode. A performance task then analyzes the comparisons made in the poem and their connection to Hughes' life and times.

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    A Dream Deferred

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    This document provides background information on the American Dream and Langston Hughes' poem "A Dream Deferred" which explores what might happen if a dream is put off or delayed. The poem uses similes to compare a deferred dream to a raisin drying up in the sun, a sore that festers and runs, rotten meat, and syrup that has crusted over. It also suggests a dream might just sag like a heavy load or explode. A performance task then analyzes the comparisons made in the poem and their connection to Hughes' life and times.

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    A Raisin in the Sun

    Background Information

    American Dream
    What is it?
    Is it an idea or does it involve material
    things?
    Ethnic, social, economic implications

    A Dream Deferred
    What happens to a dream deferred?
    Does it dry up
    Like a raisin in the sun?
    Or fester like a sore-And then run?
    Does it stink like rotten meat?
    Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
    Maybe it just sags
    like a heavy load.
    Or does it explode?
    - Langston Hughes

    Performance Task
    Comparison

    Action

    Image/Feeling
    Created

    A dream deferred is
    like

    A raisin in the sun

    Dried up

    Dead, shriveled

    A dream deferred is
    like

    A sore

    Fester then
    __________

    A dream deferred is
    like

    Rotten meat

    A dream deferred is
    like
    A dream deferred is
    like
    A dream deferred is
    like

    Performance Task
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.

    What type of figurative language does Hughes use?


    What is the message of the poem?
    How does each comparison show Hughes message?
    How does Hughes poem connect to the times he lived
    in?
    5. How does his poem connect to your life experiences?
    6. What does each of the comparisons have in common?
    7. Why do you think he chose these comparisons?

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