Comparison
A Raisin in the Sun vs Their Eyes Were Watching God
How A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurstoncompare 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
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
- Lexile
- 1080L
- Grades
- 10–12
- Published
- 1937
- Pages
- 193
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
At a glance
- Grade-range overlap
- Grades 10–12
- Year-of-publication gap
- 22 years (1959 vs 1937)
- Page-count gap
- 42 pages (151 vs 193)
- Shared curricula
- 6 of 5
- Shared themes
- 0 of 11
Curriculum overlap
Both books appear in 6 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 Their Eyes Were Watching God
- African American womanhood
- marriage and autonomy
- voice and silence
- love
- Black folk culture