Monday, October 16, 2017
Question #2: Answer After Reading Act I
Choose one or more of these characters from the play: Troy, Bono, Rose, Lyons, Gabriel, Cory, and Raynell. Explore/explain the “fences” – barrier and protective – for each character; these may be literal or figurative fences, and they may be self-imposed or societally-imposed fences.
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Rohan Kalelkar
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Honors English I
Fences Act I Response
Cory is the determined and ambitious teenage son of Troy. He frequently neglects chores, and loves football.
In his confrontations with Troy, Cory often uses playing football at school as a fence for not doing his chores, like cleaning his room, or helping Troy build a fence. Stubbornly, Troy does not give in to this, and explicitly states that he is not keen on Cory practicing football. In fact, Cory got enraged when Troy told his coach that his son would not be playing football anymore. In addition to being a fence, football was a dream, and the only Cory could prove his talents with.
Rose acted as a fence for Cory as well. She tried to protect Cory by constantly informing Troy that there was no problem in Cory playing football, but Troy did not accept that, either.
The fence of football fits into the broader theme of Cory aspiring to be successful in his adulthood, but he thinks that Troy is jealous of him for not having the chance to play football, and other opportunities. At the end of Act I, Scene Four, when in an argument with Troy, Cory exclaims, "Just because you didn't have a chance! You just scared I'm gonna be better than you, that's all."
Shane Dias
DeleteTroy had both social and self-imposed barrier fences in act 1. The racial segregation and racial disfranchisement that takes place in where Troy works is the first fence that creates a barrier for Troy. This fence inhibits Troys ability to provide and take care of his family. It also puts him at a disadvantage compared to white people in the same line of work. The second barrier fence is Troy's past. This fence is self imposed and hurts Troy and those around him. Troy's past stops him from trying new things and those around him from living their lives. An example would be Troy's past experiences with baseball and that effecting his son's ability to play football. Troy also has a protective fence. The protective fence comes in the form of Rose who balances Troy out. She acts as a caretaker and balances out the craziness of Troy's personality.
Stella Domec
ReplyDeleteGabriel Maxon has a very literal fence; he has a serious brain injury from fighting in the war, and therefore is mentally unstable/handicapped. His brain injury is also a metaphorical fence because it prevents him from living a normal life ,and doing what he would normally do, because his brain injury makes him think he is St. Gabriel, and he is unable to take care of himself, so the rest of the Maxon family acts as a protective fence for him, and they take care of him. His disability/race is also a societal fence; there is a lot of social stigma that would cause white neurotypical people to judge him and discriminate against him.
Jordan Hersh
ReplyDeleteTroy put up a fence of his speech, he is literal and acts tough. When Troy is hurt or worried in this book, he acts very tough as if he isn't phased by anything, such as death. In this story, Troy is worried about dying, he tries to convince Rose that he is okay with the idea of dying, but it is clear he is not. "You gonna die, I'm gonna die." (Page 10). He acts as though he is unfazed by death but it is clear to the reader that he is not. Troy's fence is metaphorical, it is put up through his strong speech.
Gabi Battaglini
ReplyDeleteTroy has a societally imposed fence in that he’s not able to provide for his family as well as he’d like because of the widespread racial segregation and discrimination. He doesn’t have the same opportunities in work as white people have and is not able to excel as much because of it. It is a fence that prohibits rather then protects, oppresses rather then impowers.
Troy also acts as a fence for Cory surrounding his ability to continue playing football. Troy is a fence that prohibits in between Cory and his dream, football. While Cory doesn’t help himself in avoiding conflict by simply doing his chores, he still has a fence put up by his father.
Lastly, much like with Troy, the entire family faces societally imposes fences with the worldly discrimination against the color of their skin. It prevents them from getting jobs and getting things that white people find easily accessible. It is, again, a prohibiting fence that prohibits them from the same opportunities.
Elena Holder
ReplyDeleteTroy is the main character of the play. His is biggest fence would be about the color of his skin. He has put up this wall in his head about how because of his skin he will never be allowed to achieve anything. This fence has been built because of the discrimination that he experienced in his lifetime. He refuses to believe that things will ever change. That is why he doesn't want his son Cory playing football. He doesn't want Cory to get hurt like he was.
Another character in the play is Cory. He is an ambitious guy that's about 17 years old. He isn't afraid to dive in head first. He doesn't have many mental fences but has lots of physical ones. The lack of time to work and his father's expectations are both fences for him. His goal is to become a football player but his dad doesn't want that for him. This is stopping Cory from achieving his goal. His father also wants him to have a job. Jobs take time that Cory doesn't have. Thus, having a job is yet another fence for Cory to climb over.
Troy really seems to be set on social standards for white people and people of color. To me, I really think that his fence is not wanting to realize that his friends, like Cory, are doing things to break social standard. The fence that is stopping him from realizing that is that the time that they're in is when black and white people had different rights, so he believes that Cory won't be able to play football because he's black and the coach only allows white people to play even though he got "recruited" by college football team. Troy just needs to accept that things are beginning to change and not say bad things to keep the change from happening.
ReplyDeleteThe teenage son Cory has both a barrier and protective fence; which is his father Troy and his big ego. Troy is being a barrier fence by keeping Cory away from playing football; however he’s protecting him by teaching him to live by the present and not the future. He also wants to protect him from disappointment in the future if his career doesn’t go anywhere. Another reason Troy isn’t letting Cory play is, because he didn't take care of his responsibilities; which was his simple chores. However Cory’s ego gets in the way and becomes another one of his barrier fences. Cory feels like Troy is holding him back, because he’s jealous. When in reality he just wants him to learn a lesson.
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ReplyDeleteI chose to look at Troy’s various fences. The barrier fences seemed most obvious to me. I think that Troy is extremely sensitive and vulnerable to failure in life; both failure of his own doing and being failed by society. In many cases the thing responsible for the failure (society or himself) is intentionally unclear: was his failure as a baseball player because of his own shortcomings, or because of systemic racism in the league? Or both, which seems implied? To fight off this failure, Troy employs a barrier fence of denial. It’s always something else, and something below him, that is responsible for the failure: an immature father, a corrupted system, a friend or family member who didn’t come through. Troy’s barrier fence is one built of an unsavory attitude and an obvious and outward lack of trust. On the other side of this fence is what he is protecting: his pride, his dream, and, most importantly, his family.
Dana Navarro
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The protagonist of “Fences”, Troy Maxson faces “fences” or barriers such as the racial segregation and discrimination he encounters especially during work. Simply because of his skin color, he doesn’t get to achieve such things that he would like to achieve. He has this fence built up, thinking that all people of color won’t get the same opportunities that white people would get. That’s why he is very hesitant in letting Cory do football since he has a feeling that he will be discriminated because of his skin tone.
Another character who also faces a barrier is Lyons. His father is Troy, but he wasn’t that big of a father figure to him in his early childhood since Troy at that time was in prison. His father’s absence and also doubt on a successful career is a big barrier he has to face. Also since he was a musician, it was hard for him to get a good income. He often had to ask Troy for money since his career doesn’t provide him enough money to make a living. Money was another barrier Lyons faced since he couldn’t earn much due to the profession he has took up.
Leel Liberty
ReplyDeleteTroy has a soicetally-imposed fence, and it would be his race. This is because, at the time, racial discrimination was a big issue. Troy takes the discrimination and is creating a fence for himself. He believes that because of his race he is unable to achieve his goals and dreams. This fence also affects the people around him, including his son. He thinks that because of his race Cory would be unable to play football. This puts up a fence for Cory because his father doesn't believe that he will achieve his dreams. The discrimination at the time made it so Troy's fences are very strong and prevent him from reaching his goals.
A fence in Troy's life would be his appearance. His appearance, being colored, is a physical fence that hinders his ability to be successful at baseball. He wasn't able to be develop his athletic career because he "wasn't the right color." (Troy, pg 39) The way he says this sound like a societally-imposed fence, but other athletes such as Jackie Robinson (who was acknowledged in the play) were able to progress; which makes his unsuccessful athletic career more of a self-imposed fence.
ReplyDeleteAnother fence that acts as a barrier for Troy is his past. He was constantly abused by his father, and he failed as a baseball player. Troy's past is not something he's proud of, and he tries very hard to make sure that Cory and Lyons doesn't end up as a reflection of his own life. Troy also sees a resemblance of his father in him; his father didn't like his children but he always had a responsibility for them. He even says, "I could feel him kicking in my blood and [I] knew that the only thing that separated us was the matter of a few years." (Troy, pg 53)
The major fence in Cory's life is his father, Troy Maxon, who continuously tries to keep him from playing football in college do to his sports experience as an African- American man. This is a barrier fence because Troy is stopping Cory from doing something that he loves and could benefit from. Cory's protective fence is troy as well. Troy wants to protect Cory from the inequality in the sport world.
ReplyDeleteThe fences that Gabriel has around him are not self imposed. His brain injury has left him with mental barriers that don't allow him to see the world as others do and be an active participant in it. Others, or example, Troy and Rose, also put fences up around him in ways that they believe will protect him. They are more gentle with him and shield him from their problems and worries in a way they would not do with others. I really like Gabriel a lot because I believe he brings a certain joy to the story that the other characters lack, he isn't afraid of money or sadness or any of the other characters the way many of the characters are. He rejects those certain fences.
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ReplyDeleteXia Zipper
10/30/17
Pd.7
Rose Maxson is Troy Maxson’s wife and lead female in the play “Fences” that is confined to the literal fence of marriage. She has a self- imposed boundary that legally keeps her tied to her family and duties a wife “should” have. Every day she works on house chores as a stay-at-home mom and worries about the money, her husband, her kids, her brother in law, the house, and her life in general. Troy sets Rose in a protective barrier from his love and his expectations and his talk. Society imposes a restrictive fence on Rose because of her ethnicity, that affects her and Troy on their income, status, the ability to achieve their dreams, and sets their goals for them.
one fence that I see in act one is the fence between troy and cory. I think this fence involves cory playing football and troy wanting him to stay home and help with house work. at one point in the story, troy went to cory's school and told the coach he couldn't play anymore because he could have a job and play sports and do his best at both at the same time. I think that this fence is prohibiting cory from doing what he loves but also preventing him from the injuries that come with playing football.
ReplyDeleteRose has some fences, but the one of the main one that she has is time. She wants to be known as a responsible colored woman. Because she isn't noticed much. She is making sure everyone is doing what they are told to do. On page 30, Rose just keeps on telling Troy to go do this and to go do that, or I thought you were doin this. On page 48, she is wondering if Gabe was staying for supper, and wanted her to fix a plate for him. So these are a few examples of how she is very protective about time. She isn't living in the moment or just relaxing, she is constantly thinking about the next thing that needs to be done.
ReplyDeleteRose has some fences, but the one of the main one that she has is time. She wants to be known as a responsible colored woman. Because she isn't noticed much. She is making sure everyone is doing what they are told to do. On page 30, Rose just keeps on telling Troy to go do this and to go do that, or I thought you were doin this. On page 48, she is wondering if Gabe was staying for supper, and wanted her to fix a plate for him. So these are a few examples of how she is very protective about time. She isn't living in the moment or just relaxing, she is constantly thinking about the next thing that needs to be done.
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ReplyDeleteIsabella Gregory
October 30th
Period 4
Lyons barrier is money, he wants to be up to date with the newest trends such as football and a new tv. But all of these things he wants has a price and money is always in the way and prevents him from doing these activities. While all of his friends have the newest television his family can not afford to have one. This is the same concept with football, he really wants to play it but the same problem prevents him from playing. Money also prevents new opportunities to come his way.
Evelyn Shirley
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Troys fence is his race. Being a man of color, he was not able to be an athlete because of his skin color. It has put up boundaries that other men don’t have. It makes it harder for Troy to get a job, succeed, and he couldn’t do what he wanted with his life because of it. Troy is worried for Cory. Troy dosnt think that Cory will be able to play football. That also creates a fence for Cory that his father dosnt belive in him. Troy is just trying to protect his son.
Lys Franklin
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Period 1
Troy Maxson has many metaphorical fences. He isn't extremely close with his family, he has issues in his workplace, etc. However, the one thing that really stood out to me was his mindset on his profession. Troy is afraid and upset that he isn't able to provide for his family as much as he would like. The United States was still racially segregated at this point in time, and even from the very first page, we are seeing dialogue about how black and white men do not have equal tasks, even in fields such as garbage disposal. This is his fence. The idea that he will never get ahead in life, no matter how hard he tries. The belief that no matter how terribly hard he works himself, he will never be able to give his family what a white man could.
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DeleteZoe Vickers
ReplyDeleteTroys "fence" is the color of his skin, our society makes it nearly impossible for colored people to succeed. In many ways these fences are both hypothetical (rudeness, spite, Etc.) But they can also be very literal (not allowing him to make the football team and his inability to use certain bathrooms and resturants). Troy has grown up this way, making it so he is unable to see any other point of veiw.
In fences act 1 Troy's younger brother Gabriel faces a rather large fence. His fence is his mental condition from his injury in the war and at the same time is still his race. His brain injury causes him to have a fence from living a "normal" life. He cannot manage his own money therefore his brother must do it for him. The barrier fence he would face socially is first prejudice due to the color of his skin and then more prejudice due his mental condition. People in his life treat him very differently from how the would treat a 46 year-old man without a brain injury, therefore building a fence around him to keep him protected, though they do it out of love.
ReplyDeleteCory is the football loving teen who wishes to play on a good team. His only fence is he is a boy of color and no one will give him a shot because of it. He is constantly striving to be the best just to get someone to look his way. Cory is just a little boy with a dream and because of the prejudice fences people put up when they see his skin color he will have to work ten times as hard to achieve it.
ReplyDeleteTroy’s fence is racial segregation. He is treated differently than the white men at his job. It is stopping him from reaching his full potential and getting the same opportunities as other people at his job. This fence keeps him away from what he is working for, it does not protect him.
ReplyDeleteAnother character in the book “fences” is Lyon. His fence keeps him away from his dreams. He wants to stay with all the new activities, especially football. But, he doesn't have enough money. Every opportunity he sees he can't take because of his lack of money.
Catalina Dorfman
ReplyDeleteCory's main fence is his father, Troy. Cory has worked very hard to become a good football player, so much that he is having out- of- state recruiters to take his on. No matter how hard Cory works, troy is always beating him down, saying his dream is unachievable. Troy also tells his coach to stop the recruiter from coming, which lowers Cory's chances of becoming a professional football player. Cory's other "fence" is his lack of money. Troy expects Cory to work which makes practicing football much more difficult.
Fuller Sasser
ReplyDeleteCory is the son of troy. He is the typical teenager in most ways, cares more about football than school, dosent do chores and gets in fights with his parents. But there is an aspect to him that most teenagers don’t worry about and that’s money. He knows that his family is poor and can’t afford many things whereas most poor families try to obscure that from their children. Because of this he knows he needs to do what is right for his family but the other aspects of being a teenager collide with that. The obvious fence in his life is the one that his dad wants him to miss football practice for to come help him build around their house. This is affecting his ability to play on the team and have social time with friends. But this literal fence also creates a figurative fence being that his economic situation and his responsibilities due to that often delay his dreams and hopes.
Cory Maxon's main barrier fence is his father. Cory wants to play football, but his father doesn't want him to play sports. This causes his father to stop him from playing football, and making him work a lot. Cory desperately wants to impress his father, and that is kind of a self imposed fence. His need for approval is keeping him from living his life the way he wants to. This is seen in how he tries to keep his job, and even lies to his father about it because he wants his father to approve of his football.
ReplyDeleteIn Fences, Troy has multiple fences (barriers) in the story line. One of his barriers he has to deal with is the color of his skin, which is a societal imposed barrier. Since he was an African American, he was never able to be apart of the Major Leagues in baseball since they never accepted African Americans into the major leagues while he was still able to play and was apart of the Negro baseball leagues. Also him being African American limited him from other things like not being able to go in some bathrooms, restaurants, etc. But then all of this leads to his son, Corey, not playing football since Troy (his father) doesn't think he'll be able to play football and achieve his dreams due to the color of his skin since that's what Troy experienced growing up.
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DeleteIn fences, Troy has a societally-imposed and self-imposed barrier. The societally-imposed barrier being the discrimination and segregation he faces, this keeps him from doing his job, providing for his family, and living an every day normal life. The self-imposed barrier being his past, which later comes back to hurt him, then preventing him from doing certain things.
DeleteCory's limitation or fence in this play is simply his father Trot Maxon. Troy stops Cory from playing football because he does not believe that it will take his son anywhere in life. This happened with Troy and his baseball career. Because Troy forces Cory to get a job after school he puts a fence between not only his son and himself but also his son and football. This is why Troy Maxon is Cory's physical and imaginative fence in this play.
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ReplyDeleteWilson brings to light the barriers that lie between Troy and the ideal life he wants in Fences. These barriers such as race and the socio-economic hierarchy of america have restrained him from seeking what he feels entitled to as a person. August paints Troy as an extremely incredible athlete who played in the negro baseball league, but ended up working as a trash man because he eventually got injured and too old to play, even though he still was very amazing. Because Troy is also a trash man, he does not have a very large income and having to pay for his family and his disabled brother only causes him to sink lower into the cycle of poverty and depression. Troy feels like a victim to society, as he should because he has been completely let down because of the fences that have been built around him letting him look out at what is an arms length away, but so far out of reach at the same time.
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ReplyDelete10-30-17
7th Period
I choose Troy, because he is one of the main characters in the play. Some of his most obvious fences are his race, so because he is black he doesn't have the same rights as white people, so he has this mindset that it won't get better for black people, and this also leads into his other fence, that you won't succeed if you are black. Although players like Jackie Robinson have made it, he believes that he will fail, and that is partially due to his past. because his past was a big part of who he is now, it affected his mindset, and now this is causing him to believe that his son, Cory won't make it in football solely because he is black instead of white. This influences Cory, which becomes a fence for him. In conclusion, his past experiences and the color of his skin are some fences for him.
For Act 1 The character that i chose to analyze is One of the main protagonists Troy Maxon. He is an african american man that lives in Pittsborough in the 1950s. Troy has very obvious fences. Some of these include his big dreams crashing down while reality sets in on him he wanted to be a baseball player but didn't have the opportunity to because of the time period that he grew up in. Another fence is seeing the same aspiration in his sons eyes as he once had .
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ReplyDeleteIn fences, one of the major barriers that stood out was the relationship between Troy and Cody. Cody tells his dad Troy that he wants to be part of the football team, but Troy refuses and tells him to quit. Troy also tells Cory that "there is no law that says I need to like you". That makes a barrier between Cory ad Troy even though they are father and son. In Cory's eyes he might have thought that his father wants nothing to do with Cory. Troy is really trying to protect Cory from having to experience what he had when Troy tried to join the football team. This protection is another barrier that is invisible to Cory.
Jessie Foday
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Almost all of the characters have exhibited some sort of fence or barrier that prohibits them from reaching their goal. Two that stand out to me the most are Troy and Corey, perhaps because they have similar goals. Both of their aims are to make sports into a living. Corey wants to be recruited for football and Troy wanted to play major league baseball. For Troy the fence he believes was built around him is the fact that he’s a man of colour. Since he correctly thinks the major leagues are racist they were the ones who fenced Troy in by not even allowing him the chance to shine. Corey’s fence is ironically his dad, Troy, even though Troy was once in the same situation and should be more understanding than anyone else. For example when Troy takes Corey out of football and cancels the scout he continues to add to Corey’s fence.
Above I described a fence as barrier, but when we get into different perspectives on fences these two characters become more difficult. While looking from the outside we say Corey’s fence is a barrier because he’s hindered from fulfilling his potential with football. However Troy (The main contributing factor) believes by building a fence he can protect Corey from the world. Since it was revealed Troy had a rough upbringing we can assume he is only trying to aid Corey so that when he’s older he’ll have a job and money and be better than a trash collector.
Lilly Overton
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Cory's fence is his own father. Cory is a teen who is like any other, he plays football, argues with his parents, and can be stubborn. His father, Troy Maxon, prohibits Cory from playing football to protect him from what happened to Troy. Tory believes that he won't go anywhere with sports. Cory doesn't truly understand this because he is a teen. Troy establishes this fence by making Cory quit and giving him a job. Cory feels trapped and like he is surrounded by a huge fence.
Hannah Ettu
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Troy's figurative fence is his feeling of doing what he feels he can and that's it for all aspect of his life. He has this idea that he's giving his family all that he possibly can and is incapable of doing anymore. He tries to also impose this fence on Cory, who isn't taking it well. He refuses to try anything unknown and believes he's hit his peak already so he won't do anything he hasn't already done. He's trapping himself in a mental fence that will most likely, if not already, make his life with other people harder than it could be.
Troy Maxon is facing many fences in his life. One socially imposed fence is skin color. Because of his skin color, he could not follow his life long dream of being a professional baseball player. He is discriminated against in all aspects of life, not just baseball, because of his skin color. This lost dream makes him prevent his son Cory from following his dream of trying to be a professional football player, because Troy has a fear of his son being discriminated as well. Another fence Troy faces is money and lack thereof. Because of the first fence, discrimination causes problems finding well paying jobs. He also has to support two sons instead of one, because his grown up son Lyons does not have the same determination he does.
ReplyDeleteRose has a few different types of fences, whether it be physical or figurative. She wants a fence to be put up around the yard to protect her family. Another fence of hers is her gender role. Since she is a married woman, she is expected by society to cook food for the family, stay at home, and keep her husband, Troy, happy. Through these actions, Rose has a protective fence of providing for the family. She knows when her kids are in need, she helps them, and makes it her priority. Even if Troy is being very stubborn, she'll keep rational thought and do the best thing for her kids.
ReplyDeleteCory is the so of Troy, he also loves to play sport but mostly football. Cory wants to play football for college but his dad, Troy, is his "Fence" because he disagrees. Troy's wants for his son a better life than his own and he thinks Cory will get that by focusing on school a keeping a good job. When Troy was younger he also played sports and he ended working with trash so he thinks that will happen to every black man that tries for sports and he doesn't want his son to live like him.
ReplyDeleteCory's fence is wanting to play football. His father, Troy won't let him and it is separating their relationship as father and son. Lyons' emotional fence was having ptsd after being in the war. He would talk about how he saw the devil and sat at the gates of heaven with saint peter. Troy is building a fence that symbolizes all of the fences in all of the characters' lives. The many physical and emotional barriers that they had are very important throughout Act I.
ReplyDeleteRose's physical barrier is I think the power that Troy has and how he treats her as of she doesn't know anything. But regardless her attitude towards that is calm and wise. She responds in a mature manner and does not respond in furry. She is the one that
ReplyDeleteconvinces Troy to give money to one of her sons, instead of like Troy wants his son to earn it himself. I feel like she is the one that gives her sons love and a shoulder to cry on, instead of tough love. In a relationship you need a bit of both. She adapts to changes and not hold on to what has happened in the past, she appreciates the progress like more African Americans playing baseball. She lets go of the issues and conflicts in the past and deals with what is in the feature right now. Where as Troy he is hurt of the past inequalities.
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ReplyDeleteOne barrier that Cory has throughout Act l is his father, Troy. Cory really wants to play football, but Troy wants him to do more important things like doing his chores and getting a job. Troy wants Cory to stay away from sports and to not to get involved with them because of what happened to him. Although all the characters have fences, I think that Cory has one of the biggest.
I'm choosing Troy and I think one of his fences is just the world he lives in. This fence is more of a barrier and keeps Troy from living to his fullest potential, even as a grown man. Troy is trying to make it in this corrupt life of his, while trying to maintain his family as well. Because of Troy's past, with grandparents who were born into slavery, Troy has every reason to want to give up in life. Even though most blacks at that time had grandparents that were born into slavery, or ended slaves, It's still hard to move on in life with a history of slaves holding you back as a person in the states.
ReplyDeleteTroy and Cory, father and son. Troy grew up with his childhood and had experienced a lot, since segregation and his skin color makes it his barrier, or fence. Cory dreamed of being a football player. His father, doesn’t seem too impressed about Cory’s decisions and for his later future. His career and aspirations were kind of like blocked off by his father. It’s like someone had cracked a split between him and his path towards his goal. Cory’s father was his barrier. His relationship with his father was met with hard and toughness, instead of love. Rough times were fences for both of them. They have trouble climbing on the same rope.
ReplyDeleteQuinn McGuire
ReplyDelete11/8/17
7th period
While all the characters so far how protective and defensive fences, a few stand out to me in particular. Gabriel went to war and came back with a bullet in his skull leaving him mentally disabled. His family and neighbors are supportive of him and do not make him feel any different for the way his mind functions. They protect and take care of him where others might make fun of him or hurt him. Gabriel's family serves and both a Physical and emotional barrier of protection, they keep him in and the others out. Another characters barrier i found particularly interesting was Cory's relationship with his father. his father blatantly states that he doesn't like him and doesn't have to. That fits under the official definition of emotional abuse, but Cory has never known loving parents, his state leaves him stuck and wounded, unable to move away for the barbed wire fence keeping him from his dreams. not to mention the physical fence he and his father are building.
I think Cory has a pretty important fence. The relationship between Cory and his father Troy is very abusive in a way. Cory wants to play football but his father is not letting him do that and is forcing him to build the fence and do chores. I think this happens because of Troy's own personal fences. He is struggling to be dignified man in the world.
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I think Troys' fence is the world he lives in. His fence is like a wall, it blocks him from moving on and changing his life for the better. He self-imposes this fence and tries to keep his family within all the chaos in his life and still have this barrier up. With his grandparents being born in slavery he has all the rights to give up on life and leave it all behind. Since Troy has his history holding him back it's hard for him to move on and make a new life and he won't be the only one held back by his past.
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11/30/17
After reading Act I, I see that the character of Cory has a lot of fences that have been placed on him throughout his life, due to his father and his father’s choices. Some of these fences that Cory has in his life is that his father Troy does not approve of him playing football and Troy refused to meet with a college scout that wanted Cory to go to their college with a football scholarship. This was heartbreaking to Cory and made him start to dislike his father even more than he already did. Cory’s second fence is the fence of his father’s shadow watching his every move to make sure that Cory does not become a better man or athlete than his father Troy. These are just a few fences that Cory has experienced so far in the play and I am sure that many more fences will arise throughout the play for Cory.
I think that there is the main fencethat is racism and thT because the book is centered around Troy, it is his experiance with racism and after that it's how his coping with the injustices that plague his environment affects his family. Towards Cory, Troy's son, he disapproves of his dreams to preform sports because he thought that if he did he would get destroyed by the racism and he would suffer.
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