In august wilson “Fences” talks about how each character want to build a fence around them to keep them in, while the others do not want to be fence in, and they want to be free and follow their dreams. Rose wanted troy, her husband, to build a fence around the house, so she could keep the family in and be safe. Rose wants things to stay the same and the family to get along. For example “and you know I ain’t never wanted no half nothing in my family…. My whole family is half” (2.1). So she saying that she want her family to be a whole instead of being a half, cause that’s what she always had her whole life. Rose’s brothers and sisters all were half brothers and sisters because all, Troy wanted to be out of the fence at first,
but throughout the sence he changed and built the fence. For instance “I’m gonna tell you what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna take and build me a fence around this yard…. What belongs to me”(2.2). So he was saying to death that he was not going anywhere, and stay with his family. Troy was a man with an attitude with a smart mouth. He did not have much nice to say to his wife. He cheated and did not have much to do with his son cory that he was trying to make him quit playing football and go to work. Troy always had something bad to say to the people he was close to that’s why he could not get anywhere in baseball. Cory was the son of tory and rose. He was successful in football and was going to the next level college football. But he is having a hard time with his father on doing that anywhere. And he is mad he is not home to help him with chores around the house.
BUT if we want the same perimeter (which we do) we have to take away a
August Wilson’s play, Fences, follows the formal conventions of its genre, which helps convey the story to the audience because he uses stage directions, theme, symbolism, and figurative language. Theme and symbolism are an important factor in the play. These two things are the main focus of the play because it gives us a message that the author wants to give us to secretly while we read. A theme that was given in Fences is that oppression does not choose to hurt people of color, but gender as well.
...e he ruined his marriage by cheating on her. Rose takes care of Troy’s newborn baby Raynell because she believes that Raynell needs a mother figure in her life and not a worthless man; she then kicks Troy out of the house. After Troy dies, Rose forgives him. Rose married Troy after he was released from prison. Troy knows that he is unsuccessful in accomplishing what he wanted for him and his family. Troy is a garbage man who feels that the white man kept him from doing a lot of things that he wanted to do in life. Troy does not have many goals in life. Troy is in own little world and does not like to be judged.
Rose’s loyalty to her family showed a load amount of strength in character. Even though she was not the mother of the child, who would eventually be named Raynell, she still stepped up to the task, even if it was against what she wanted in life. In the play Fences it states, “Okay Troy.. you’re right. I’ll take care of your baby for
At first glimpse, Rose Maxson is your typical African American housewife at those times. She is often seen tending to the needs of her family, cooking and doing the laundry. Despite Troy’s abrasive nature, she sticks with him for the majority of the play. While she may seem like an average housewife, she is not submissive and is always calling Troy out whenever he is being inappropriate, or when he tells one of his stories and is
Answer: When I hear the word fence I imagine a farm gridded using white wooden fences. The fences are separating the animals that inhabit the farm. In literature, a fence reminds me of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Similarly to a fence on a farm, the fence surrounding the concentration camp separates things - people this time, not animals. What’s the writer doing with this object? I believe she's using it to show the difference between the fortunate and unfortunate. A fence in literature is a barrier between things. It symbolizes differences and enhances the meaning of the things on either side of the fence. Bruno, the free boy, is used to show the ignorant and lucky. The other boy, Shmuel, is used to show the minority and less fortunate. Their parts in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are only enhanced by the presence of a
families, or ethnicities. Robert Frost wrote of fences in his poem ―Mending Wall‖ showing how
The fences also represent the barrier between African Americans and the rest of the society. Alchura says that the way Wilson uses the setting dominates the fact of racism in this play (Alchura 1). Wilson uses the following quote as a way to show how racism affected African Americans.
Throughout the play, readers see an incomplete fence which symbolizes Rose (Troy’s wife) and Troy’s drifting relationship. Rose wants Troy and Cory to build a fence to keep her loved ones protected. This is evident when Rose is seen singing the church hymn, “Jesus, be a fence all around me every day. Jesus, I want you to protect me as I travel on my way” (I. ii). This insinuates the fact that Rose wants to keep her family close. Rose and Troy’s relationship seemed to be breaking down after eighteen years and the fence may have also been a way to keep Troy in Rose’s life. Yet, Troy has been in no rush to finish the fence. He sees it as some sort of confinement. Fences contain a lot of barriers that Troy tries to keep down; one barrier being his marriage. Troy claims that he has so much love for Rose, but readers see that exclusive relationships makes him feel caged in. He keeps the fence unfinished because he knows that if he finishes it than it will symbolize the end of his escape to his mistress, Alberta. Troy’s affair builds a fence that separates his marriage causing his actions to affect Rose by caging her in with a daughter that is not hers: “From right now . . . this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.” Rose tried to use a fence of divine power to keep her family protected. Troy neglected this by committing adultery, leavi...
Since childhood people have been taught they have control of their future, but sometimes their futures are already laid out for them. Not by choice, but simply by social construct. Just imagine someone telling you what you can or cannot do simply based on something you have no control over? Or do you actually have control over your destiny? August Wilson answers the question for us in the play Fences written in 1985. August Wilson was born into the poor Bedford area of Pittsburgh PA in 1945, growing up through the 1950’s as an African American wasn’t an easy life. Blacks of the time often had opportunities taken away from them like playing in major league sports teams and limited education, also suffering through his parent’s divorce and a
Throughout the play the reader sees how 'fences' are used to protect the characters mentioned. Early on, Rose protects herself by singing, 'Jesus, be a fence all around me every day. Jesus, I want you to protect me as I travel on my way' (Wilson 21). By Rose signing this song, one can see Rose's desire for protection. To Rose, a fence is a symbol of her love. Her longing for a fence signifies that Rose represents love and nurturing within a safe environment. However Troy and Cory think the fence is a burden and reluctantly work on finishing Rose's project. Bono indicates to Troy that Rose wants the fence built to protect her loved ones as he says, 'Some people build fences to keep people out' and other people build fences to keep people in. Rose wants to hold on to you all. She loves you? (61). While reminiscing about the 'project', Bono asks Troy why he 'got to go and get some hard wood' (60) as he says, "Nigger, why you got to go and get some hard wood? You ain't doing nothing but building a little old fence. Get you some soft pine wood. That's all you need" (60). Troy choosing to use hard wood instead of soft pine wood shows the reader that Troy wants hard wood to protect him harder from Death and all of his problems. Although each character in the play interprets the concept of a fence differently, they all see it as some form of protection.
The theme of the poem is about two neighbours who disagree over the need of a wall to separate their properties. Not only does the wall act as a divider in separating estates, it also acts as a barrier in the neighbours' friendship, separating them. For the neighbour with the pine trees, the wall is of great significance, as it provides a sense of security and privacy. He believes that although two people can still be friendly neighbours, some form of barrier is needed to separate them and 'wall in' the personal space and privacy of the individual. This is shown through his repeated saying, 'good fences make good neighbours' (line 27). The neighbour's property is a representation of his privacy and the wall acts as a barrier against intrusion.
...need to keep the wall up in order to protect themselves from outsiders. At the same time though, the need for the ritual of mending the fence is beyond their control. The narrator states, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall...And makes gaps even two can pass abreast." (Lines 1-4) The choice to pass through the fence is available, and so is the choice to mend the wall each year. Both know that the fence will fall again and the next spring they will be reunited. As long as the literal wall exists there will be contact between the two men. However as long as the figurative barriers remain, the distance between them is further than any fence could separate them.
...y. But while there appears to be little appreciation and some scorn, (literally and symbolically), for the neighbor's seemingly unenlightened, "moving in darkness" with all who find security in their walls, there is a novel bond in their differences. Two farmers, two men in stark contrast whose natures and perceptions are so vastly different, if not opposed. One would question whether they ever exchanged any more than a passing wave throughout the year: year after year. Yet the wall that divides them brings them together at least on that one day annually to reacquaint and perhaps to further know and understand. The wall that defines their possessions grants the opportunity to overcome their walls of indifference and their difference. And therein lies a true irony. The neighbor's worn cliché is born out in a very unique sense; "Good fences make good neighbors."
Robert Frost examines what role fences play in shaping relationships between neighbors. Do neighbors get along better because of walls separating their properties? Frost quotes his neighbor several times as saying “good fences make good neighbors.” But the idea has several interpretations. The most obvious meaning is that walls separate people from one another and that this separation eliminates the possibilities for feuds or disappointments, or trespassing, both literally and figuratively, on a neighbor’s domain. A second possibility is that fences make for good neighbors because each year Frost must work with his neighbor to repair the fence. The joint cooperative effort means that the neighbors have a reason to get together at least once a year and complete a common task under positive circumstances.