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A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun contains many themes. Lorraine Hansberry has developed those themes from her personal views and experiences. Many black authors and poets around the time of the depression had similar views and similar themes in their writings. Two themes Lorraine Hansberry uses in A Raisin in the Sun is that dreams can either save or destroy a person or in this case a family and the importance of family values and morals. As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the things such as his family behind. This movement away from the family is against the furtherance of the values and morals of the family. Where in the past his father would have been happy working for another man and caring for his fami