Wilson's Fences
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We encounter everyday tragedy of self-destruction. In the play Fences written by August Wilson, forces in African-American life are used by Wilson to counteract the story of Troy’s fall from grace. First, Troy was a man of hard work and responsibility. Second, Troy taught his son not to make t ....
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.... loves his son Cory and wants the best for him but not like anything like his father. Troy doesn’t want him to play sports because of what happened to him. Troy tells Cory that he won’t get to play because of the discrimination. “I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn’t getting involved in no sports. Not after what they did to me in the sports (p.39).” Troy also wants Cory to be a man. He tells Cory to keep with school because he never had an education. He wants Cory ....
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Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
