Comparison
A Raisin in the Sun vs Beloved
How A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Beloved by Toni Morrisoncompare on reading level, grade placement, curriculum overlap, and shared themes — derived from primary-source citations on each book’s ReadingList page.
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
- Grades
- 9–12
- Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 151
- Genre
- Drama
Beloved
Toni Morrison
- Lexile
- 870L
- Grades
- 11–12
- Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 324
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
At a glance
- Grade-range overlap
- Grades 11–12
- Year-of-publication gap
- 28 years (1959 vs 1987)
- Page-count gap
- 173 pages (151 vs 324)
- Shared curricula
- 4 of 6
- Shared themes
- 0 of 12
Curriculum overlap
Both books appear in 4 shared curriculum frameworks:
Themes
Only A Raisin in the Sun
- American Dream
- Black family life
- housing segregation
- gender and work
- assimilation vs heritage
- generational conflict
Only Beloved
- slavery and its aftermath
- motherhood
- memory and trauma
- identity
- community
- the supernatural