After reading about the background of "A Raisin In the Sun", I was really surprised by the fact that she changed the ending of the play. Instead of writing that a white mob was coming into his home, the ending was changed into the family moving into a white neighborhood.
I found this really important, because I do notice that many books and movies end up with the typical "happy ending", and often not representing reality. I used to believe in these fairytale endings, but now I realize that life is not a fairytale and things do not always have perfect endings. I think it is important for more books and movies and tv shows to represent reality, especially when it comes to topics involving social justice. Because the reality is that it is still a battle that needs to be fought to this day. By depicting things like sexism and racism in books as things that end happily is not the reality, because they haven't ended and it needs to be brought to people's attention.
However, I do understand why she would change the ending, because people are always expecting a happy ending. People never want to accept the fact that sometimes things end badly. It's the reality that nobody likes, nobody likes to read a sad ending, even if it is the truth.
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