Comparison
A Raisin in the Sun vs Lord of the Flies
How A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Lord of the Flies by William Goldingcompare 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
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
- Lexile
- 770L
- Grades
- 9–12
- Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 224
- Genre
- Allegorical Fiction
At a glance
- Grade-range overlap
- Grades 9–12
- Year-of-publication gap
- 5 years (1959 vs 1954)
- Page-count gap
- 73 pages (151 vs 224)
- 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 Lord of the Flies
- civilization vs savagery
- human nature
- loss of innocence
- group psychology
- power and leadership
- fear