now. Fences follows Troy Maxon‚ a middle aged black man‚ who is married to Rose‚ and has three children‚ each from different women. Troy is enraged that‚ being an African American‚ he Mauro 2 can’t drive the garbage trucks at work-even though he cannot read‚ and doesn’t even have his driver’s license. He doesn’t seem to be a bad person‚ at heart. He gives Lyons‚ his son from his first marriage‚ money whenever he asks‚ but the money does not come without a price. Troy complains to Lyons that
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criminals who say “the devil made me do it“. I still think jack Daniels speaks louder for Troy. Almost as soon as he disappeared he reappeared‚ but 12 gauges heftier this time. As I heard the glass door shatter behind me‚ I dropped to my knees and crawled what seemed like a football field to the safety inside my abode. The gunshots seemed as if they could be heard around the world. Out of my peripherals I noticed Troy was now inside: “Put that mattress against the wall!” he yelled still high from the
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who is Troy and Rose’s son‚ sees this fence as just another chore that his mom and dad are constantly making him go out of his way to help build and complete this fence. He doesn’t necessarily have much meaning behind how he sees it‚ but just gets annoyed when his parents ask him to help build it. In connection to this‚ Troy states to Cory‚ “Your first chore is to help me with this fence on Saturday. Everything else comes after that” (Wilson 31). Instead of going to football practice‚ Troy is making
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authority structure‚ either positional or personal. In High School Musical the students hold the most authority. The student body manipulates the teacher’s positional power to achieve their own desires. This is evident at the school musical call backs. Troy and Gabriella are not allowed to audition as a result of their tardiness‚ but when an overwhelming amount of support comes from the cheering crowd of students Ms. Darbus makes an exception. This demonstrates that the positional authority Ms. Darbus
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the way they look. These racist acts tie in deeply with a play named Fences. The play Fences by August Wilson‚ takes place during the late 1950’s through to 1965‚ a period of time when the fight against segregation was expanding. The main character‚ Troy Maxson‚ had been dealing with racial discrimination his whole life‚ due to this his futuristic dreams were forced to be set aside and not able to be reached. Throughout his fight against racism not only did he end up taking his son‚ Cory’s‚ dreams
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We can see that troy struggled to do his roles and duties as father to his son and husband to his wife. We can easy say that Troy did not do such a great job in either role‚ right before his death his family has everything they wanted but also disintegration since all the failures that troy did in the past. However‚ at the end of the play that his family has also matured by due to his example. Fences depicts
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family of Troy and Rose Maxson as they struggle to live through the hardships they are faced with during this period of segregation and racism. Accepting imperfections that are caused by power and privilege proves to be complicated for those such as the Maxsons who society has oppressed. The American dream plays as the imperfect promise of success; only if one accepts that the dream has a limit on its possibilities can he or she not be destroyed by anger towards the faulty promises. Troy Maxson‚
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are different. They are considered to be heroes‚ but they fight for different reasons. Troy is filled with many great warriors‚ but the most honourable hero is prince Hector. He shows great qualities of the archetypal hero and the contemporary hero‚ fight for his land and his family honour. Even though he’s not the strongest‚ he just wanted peace‚ as an archetypal hero. Hector’s quest is to fight for Troy and leads his soldiers to battle against the Greeks. He is a warrior of courage that
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from North Carolina.” (Act One‚ Scene 3‚ pg 35). In other words‚ He asking Troy to sign his scholarship to go to college. This indicates that He is good enough to get a scholarship but his dad doesn’t let him play football. The impact of this is that they got into a argument and were mad at eachother. Troy says “First you gonna get your butt down there to the A&P and get your job.” (Act One‚ Scene 3‚ pg 36). Accordingly‚ Troy thinks that cory can do is just work. This implies that he rather have cory
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Iliad The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters‚ traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War‚ the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states‚ it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war‚ the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends
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