Fences By August Wilson Essay

The history of African American struggle to become free and equal is the most intriguing and heart-breaking history of our time. Most African Americans are still being discriminated and oppressed even though the law of the land says otherwise. I have seen several movies in the past about Africa Americans life during the slavery, but I have never read a book before. On the novel “Fences” by August Wilson, he wants his audience to be part of a regular African American family and witness the struggle Africa American went through to survive. As a result, one of his main character “Troy” depicted as the victim of unjustified arrest and discrimination. Also who make plenty of mistakes, but learned from the mistakes that he made in the past. In his book, he showed the reader the day to
Troy was arrested for fifteen years for stealing. This is still happing to a black man who has done minor crime but jailed for many years. Police brutality and mass incarceration are making African Americans life very difficult. In addition, an African American man has a greater chance getting killed by law enforcement than any other race. We have seen this happing in recent time when innocent young black person being killed in unreasonable way.
Many people believe that racism and discrimination are behind us, however there are several people subjected to racism to this day. Troy’s story is one of the many African Americans who experienced discrimination, exclusion, and unjustified arrest. Being a black person in this country has tremendous obstacles and requires extra hard task to make the American dream a reality. August Wilson wrote this book so others can understand the struggle for equality, inclusion, justice not just for African Americans but for people who going through what colored people are going through to this