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Richard Wright’s “Down by the Riverside” and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun are two stories with two wildly different outcomes. They had different messages on how African Americans could achieve equality. “Down by the Riverside” had a very grotesque and sad ending that leaves the reader wondering why Mann even bothered to try so hard to survive and save his family when surviving just seemed impossible. By contrast, A Raisin in the Sun ended by showing through the main characters that fighting for a better life in an oppressive system was worth it in the end. Additionally, these two texts both use different art and literary forms to convey their beliefs in their story through literature. The most salient difference of these two stories is that Richard Wright’s story demonstrated Wright’s belief America’s white dominated system would always oppress the Blacks, while Lorraine Hunsberry’s story demonstrated the benefit for African Americans to work within the system to gain equa...