A Raisin in the Sun and Harlem

I feel that Lorraine Hansberry used the line:"a raisin in the sun" for her title, because the story and the poem are both about crushed dreams. In Langston Hughes' poem, he begins with the topic of sweet things. He ends the poem with words that describe destruction and death. This is how life was for minorities during the time that the play was based. One could go about being a kind and generous person, but the results could blow up in their face if they were considered to be undesirable. This could draw a connection to the Jesus Colon story that we discussed in IHSS. He wanted to help a white woman up the subway steps because her hands were full and she had three kids. He avoided the possible fate that could have befallen him when he decided to not help her because he thought she might have been a racist.