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The plays of August Wilson afford us the rare opportunity to hear African American History from a unique perspective. In an engrossing manner, he takes a slice from the lives of ordinary people and tells the entire twentieth century history of the Black Experience in America. His greatness as a playwright is his ability to personally tell this history behind the masks of his many rich characters.
"Fences", his masterpiece, focuses on a conflicted man named Troy Maxson who is in the process of building a fence around his yard. With this backdrop, Wilson analogously depicts the numerous metaphorical fences which his protagonist builds around himself at the expense of his relationship with his family. Extending the parable, we see the fence that his wife, Rose, is trying to build around Troy and her family in an attempt to hold them all together.
"Fences" is a brilliant essay on the miscommunication and misunderstandings that inhabit most families and the corresponding regrets that inevitably exhist when it is too late to do anything about it.
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Although this is a play by a black writer about black experience in the USA, it has greater relevance than that description would suggest. The play has a great deal to say to us about how we raise our children, what we expect from our relationships, and how difficult it can be to escape our inheritance, both physical and emotional.
I believe this play could be transported into any community where there is a history of poverty and repression and it would speak loud and clear to its audience.
I believe this play could be transported into any community where there is a history of poverty and repression and it would speak loud and clear to its audience.
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Fences centers around the tragically hubristic Troy, a man whose disappointments and pathologies form the nucleus around which all the other characters eventually interact. Although this element of Wilson's work is provocative and commendable, and although I can imagine that I would like this play significantly more if I were to see it performed, it is just not very exciting when read in a dramatic vacuum. The play contains complex dynamics of racism, loyalty, and control. If you need a book on which to write a character analysis paper, this might be it; if you want to be entertained, look elsewhere.
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This is a story about one black family in 1950`s.
I read this book in my EFL class at St`Georges Summer School. I thought this play is about baseball but it`s not.This play is about one black family in 1950`s. Read more
Published on 26 July 1999
Poignant and somber but honest and admirable
I read this play for a college drama course. I'm glad I took that course because I never would've known about this play. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 1999
This book relates to all races
I really enjoyed this book becasue I could feel what it was saying. It really reached out to me and I instantly felt a connection. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 1999
I thought it had inappropriate language.
It was very realistic in that it had a lot of father/son conflicts.
Published on 23 Nov 1998
This book is an in depth look at a black family in the 50's
This book is a great book to pick up and finish in the same session. It takes no more than 2 hours to read and the conversation makes it quick. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 1998
I liked the storie because its very interesting
I am a brazilian student and I had to read this book in my english class. I think its an interesting storie, showing us the daily of one poor black family in the 50's, when the... Read more
Published on 29 July 1998
It was very enjoyible to read it
I liked that book becouse I found some similar things from my life.My father is not strict like Troy but after reading that book I understood that he is trying to build a fence... Read more
Published on 29 July 1998
It was very enjoyible to read it
I liked that book becouse I found some similar things from my life.My father is not strict like Troy but after reading that book I understood that he is trying to build a fence... Read more
Published on 29 July 1998
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