“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” This quote from Walt Disney addressing the concept of dream fulfillment is very accurate and can be seen throughout literature today and in the past. Dreams can empower people or take away hope and influence how people live their lives depending on whether or not they have the determination to attack their dreams; seen through characters like Langston Hughes' Harlem orator and Lena and Walter Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in The Sun. Langston Hughes' poem, Harlem, inspired the title of A Raisin in The Sun due to its close relationship to the theme of dreams. His poem can also relate to Disney's quote; Disney states that anyone's dream can come true if pursued, while Hughes talks about what happens when dreams are not pursued. It discusses many different things that can happen when dreams are postponed. Many times, when not pursued, dreams have a negative impact on that person. Harlem is definitely a negative poem, conveyed through phrases like rotten, scab, sagging, and party, all unpleasant words. The rhythm of the poem and the location of each hypothesis about what happens to a dream deferred are important to the message of the poem. Early on, Hughes talks about processes that are slower, such as “…drying like a raisin in the sun” (2-3) and “crust[ing] and syrup[ing] on top – like a sugary dessert”( 7-8).At the end of the poem, the author does wonders: "...does it just explode?" (11), something that happens much faster than all his other hypotheses pace and because this is often the path a deferred dream takes; a slow process, the dream slowly fades away until, BOOM, there is no longer a dream in... middle of paper... eve of his dream and he begins to "get down like a heavy load" (9-10). Then his mother gives him money to go out and realize his dream, and he is happy; but, when Willy leaves with his money, and his chances of realize her dreams in the near future go away, her dream explodes. Walter falls into the fog for the rest of the show after his dream collapses. However (something that is not mentioned in the poem), Lena regains her faith in his son when he refuses Lidner's bribe (Walter comes out of the fog he was in when he does too). If the poem coincides with the play and the poem has a follow-up line, one might assume that it has something to do with a person finally achieving their dreams. Ultimately, this is how Harlem and A Raisin in the Sun are most closely related; the characters and narrator in each piece of literature mirror each other closely.