Gaoussou Lelenta
 

Fences by August  Wilson

Jounra1 # what are some of the images and symbolic meanings the title of the
play transpire to you?
The images tell me a story of racism in the early 1930. When I see this cover it
reminds me of baseball the man in the cover looks like Jackie Robinson. This
book most likes about the racism fences dividing blacks and whites in baseball
 
 

Title Analysis

When i hear the word fences, i think like most people would
think , white picket fence that borders a house. But then again, other people can
think it would symbolize someone's secrecy and privacy. You can see  there are many interpretations of what a fence can me to different people. Fences are made to separate you from your surrounding neighbors or outside world. When I first heard this title and realized that the  symbol of a fence can be  different things, I wondered what people would be hiding behind fences . It could be good or it could be bad if you really think about it    I think fences is a good way to symbolize  people privcy  because sometimes
people just have to keep to themselves and be alone, whether they want to or
not. People's dreams might also be “fenced” within themselves because people
are afraid to show their true feeling, needs and desires. Even though no one
should. Just be you but give yourself some time to yourself some time “fenced”
from the world.

Creative Writing

In the story Fences their were many people with many different dreams. Dream
are something everyone needs to go for to feel good about themselves and
prove to themselves that they can do something.

One dream I always had was to be a model. I love taking pictures of myself,
being pampered, and being in the spotlight. Modeling, I felt, was the perfect
dream for me that I knew I had to achieve. Money was a huge problem in my
family because I don't have thousands of dollars to

just throw a way. My first step was to take pictures. I found a good
photographer and got real nice pictures. My next step was to get comp cards
but instead I got a better deal. Everyone kept telling me that this scouting
network, Wilhelmina, is a good exposing business. They are one of the top. So I
decided to attend an open call and all I got was perfect comments. They wanted
me to work with them and I decided too. A few days later I got booking
requests to several opportunities. That day was today. If I didn't fight for what I
wanted and go after it, no one would have. I will never give up and I promise
myself I will achieve it, as long as I believe.
 
 
 

acts scene
 

Act 1 Scene 3

Cory comes home from football practice saturday afternoon. Rose tells cory
that troy was upset about Cory leaving without doing his chores or helping him
with the fence. Cory tells Rose that Troy has been asking him to help put up the
fence and never gets to it and Troy goes to Taylor's bar. Cory goes inside to eat
lunch and then does his chores. Troy comes home from Taylor's but he can't
remember the score of the game. He starts to flirt with Rose and then yells at
Cory to come ouside and help him with the fence. Troy tells Cory that he is to
his chores instead of football practice.

Cory and Troy work on the fence. Cory asks Troy if they can buy a t.v. Troy
would prefer to buy a new roof because it would insure their future security.
Cory thinks it would be fun to watch the worl series on t.v. It would cost $200,
Troy agrees to meet Cory half way for the tv $100 each and it was a deal. Cory
and Troy start to talk about baseball.

Troy disappoints Cory by not signing the permission papers for cory to play
college football. Cory tells troy that the coach is going to recruit cory and troy
will not change his mind. Troy wants cory to work at the A&P supermarket
instead of going to practice. Cory tells Troy that he has gave up his job at A&P
during football season. Mr. Stawicki cory's boss is letting him keep his job for
when the season ends. Cory begs Troy to change his mind but troy refuses and
demands cory to get his job back.

Cory asks troy why he never liked him. Troy reponds by explaining his belief
that his role as a father is to take care of him and shelter him. Troy demands
cory to speak to him with respect with the word sir. Rose asks Troy why he will
not let cory play football when cory is trying to follow in his fathers foot steps.
Troy and rose discuss how the times has change these days and are not the
same. Troy tells rose that he is trying to give everything he has to his family and
he can't change or give anything else but his hard work and responsibility. Troy
feels that his financal support is more than enough.

Vocabulary

1. Tarred- to coat or cover something, especially a road surface, with tar

2. Hauling- to transport something that is heavy and bulky from one place to
another

3. Crookeds-sharply curved, bent, or twisted, often in more than one place

4. Mothering- to give rise to something

5. Methodical- systematic or painstaking
 
 

Act 1 Scene 1

It was friday, Troy and Bono's payday. Their both garbage collectors and they
were done for the day. Troy and Bono are at Tory's house where they drink and
catch up on each others lives by telling their stories. There both at the dirty
front yard of Troy's house where the entire play takes place.

Troy was talking about one of his co-workers named mr. Brownie who lied to
their boss named Mr. Rand about having a watermelon in his hands and trying
to hide the watermelon under his coat and Mr. Brownie became really
embarrass about the whole thing. Troy had asked Mr. Rand who was there boss
why the black employees aren't allowed to drive the garbage trucks and only to
lift the garbage. Mr Rand told Troy to see th commissioner of the union about
his complaint. Troy says that Mr. Rand told him to take the complaint to the
union the follwing friday. Troy was not afraid of getting fired.

Bono changes the conversation and talks about Alberta a woman who hangs
out at Taylor's bar that troy and Bono visit daily. Bono does not ask Troy if he
is having affair with Alberta but Troy says he hadn't eyed a women other then
his wife Rose. Bono agrees with him but Bono talks about how he have seen
Troy walking around Alberta's home and also how he brought her a drink. Bono
asks Troy what he knew about her and troy said she was from Tallahassee and
he sai that he knows something about her.

Rose comes out of the house. Rose and Troy tell Bono the ways Rose has
changed Troy for the better as a married man. Rose tells the men that Troy and
Rose's con Cory has been recruited by a college football team and the college
coach is coming t visit. Troy was a baseball plyer in the negro leagues but he
never got a chance to play in the majors because he got to old to play just as the
majors began accepting black players. Troy does not want cory to play ball but
to learn a trade. When Troy exclaims that it was unfair to prohibit anyone who
was good enough to play in the Majors from playing and then takes a long
drink, Rose reprimands him saying, "You gonna drink yourself to death." Her
comment throws Troy into a long epic story about his struggle in July of 1943
with death. Troy turns the time when he was sick with pneumonia in Mercy
Hospital into a fanciful story about his fight with a character named Death.
Even as Rose provides the real story to Bono, Troy continues telling his sde of
his story.

Lyons a son of Troys wife before Rose shows up at the house as he has tended
to do on many fridays in the pst because Lyons knows it is Troys payday.
Lyons is a jazz musician and is 34 years old. He asks Troy if he can borrow 10
dollars from him. and Tory continues about death. Lyons thinks Troy's belief
that he has seen the Devil is as ridiculous as Troy thinks it is for Lyons to
pursue music. Troy puts down the way Lyons was raised and Lyons accuses
Troy of knowing little about the way he was raised because Troy was in jail for
most of Lyons' childhood. Lyons and Rose convince Troy to give Lyons the ten
dollars. Lyons abruptly decides to leave after receiving the money. Bono
decides to go home to Lucille and the pig feet she made for dinner. Troy
embarrasses Rose by telling Bono how much he loves his wife and brags that on
Monday morning when it is time for work, he'll still be making love to her.

Vocabulary

1. Emulate- to try hard to equal or surpass somebody or something, especially
by imitation.

2. Vulgar-crude or obscene, particularly about sex or bodily functions

3. Burlap-coarse cloth woven from jute, hemp, or a similar rough thread

4. Trumped-in card games, a card from a suit declared to be higher in value
than any other suit, or the suit itself.

5. Vigilance-the condition of being watchful and alert, especially to danger
 
 
 
 

In Scene one act two, Cory, Rose, Bono, and Troy all discussed their conflicts
in their personal life. Troy was disappointed in Cory a wanted him to quite the
team. Cory didn't like his father's decision and tried avoiding him as much.
After Troy arrived from the court with Gabe, he began to build a fence with his
fried Bono. During this time he was discussing his relationship with Rose. Bono
was saying that Rose was the best women Troy ever had, and she doesn't
deserve to be treated with out respect.

Troy did admit he messed around with another women while still married to
Rose. The women Troy was messing around with, Alberta, did find out she was
pregnant by him and Troy was notified. He didn't know how to approach Rose
to tell her, so he laid it straight out. Rose, finding out her husband has got
another women pregnant, began to act like no other. She was upset, sad, and
curious. As a wife, Rose was the best. She did everything she had to do to
satisfy her husband, and she feels she gets nothing in return. Not physically but
mentally and verbally he left a permanent mark on her. She knows not that he
doesn't deserve to be trusted. As this scene comes to an end Rose tells Troy her
true feels towards him. She says that he always seems to take and receive but
never give in return. When Troy heard this, it blew his head off. He got very
aggravated begins to react physically. He pulls Rose's arm in a harmful way
ready to hit her, when Cory enters the room, witnessing his mom getting
pushed. Of course Cory tries to protect his mother and begins to pull Troy
away. Troy being surprised reacts with a blow to Cory's chest, which knocks
him to the floor. Rose is trying to stop Troy from doing any more harm to Cory,
while Troy is still screaming at Cory.

In this scene the conflict happening is man vs. man. The main conflict in this
scene is between Troy and Rose. Rose does try to avoid the conflict from
uprising by being calm about the whole problem. But obviously, it doesn't work
and Troy begins to act violently.