C.N+Does+it+dry+up+like+a+raisin+in+the+sun?

It is key that you know the meaning of the line "Does it dry up like a rain in the sun?" because it helps you enhance your knowledge on the point that Langston Hughes is trying to get across in this poem. As a raisin, it is a good thing, useful and nutritious. But if a raisin is left in the sun to dry up, it becomes hard and impossible to eat; its value is sucked out and it no longer serves its useful, nutritional purpose. This senario is much like the dream that Langston Hughes is refering to. Like a raisin it starts off as a good and useful thing, but if deferred or delayed until a certain time it begins to deteriorate and loses all value and initial purpose.