According to Bill Cosby, a famous African American actor “ Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky task business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.” A parent tends to think they can stop recurring events from affecting their offsprings but mistakes are like a generational curse. A generational curse is the repetition of mistakes that follow a family. “Fences,” written by August Wilson displays a father who tries to raise his child up so that he does not have to learn things in the same manner that he had learned. The protagonist Troy Maxson has experienced racial setbacks, that has altered the way he has chosen to raise his son. Raising an African American son is to
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I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun—My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly.” Hughes makes it clear that as an African American he does have dreams. Hughes symbolic wall represents the unfair treatment that covered up his dreams. In “Fences,” Troy Maxson , felt that he should have made it to the major leagues, but his race card played a part in how far he was going to make it at that particular time. “ Troy: I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell , I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn’t even make! What you talking about Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson wasn’t nobody , I’m talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don’t care what color you were. Come telling me I come along too early.”(Fences Page 10) Troy points out the idea that Jackie Robinson was inadequate in comparison to the previous African Americans baseball that never made it to the major leagues. The scene also reveals the emotional toll of his dream being crushed affected his ability to allow his own son to dream. “ Troy: I told that boy about that football stuff. The white man ain’t gonna let him get nowhere with that football. I told him when he first come with me with it.”(Fences Page 8) Both Langston Hughes and Troy Maxon were around the same age group when they felt compelled to move forward because they could not camouflage the color of their
I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun—My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly.” Hughes makes it clear that as an African American he does have dreams. Hughes symbolic wall represents the unfair treatment that covered up his dreams. In “Fences,” Troy Maxson , felt that he should have made it to the major leagues, but his race card played a part in how far he was going to make it at that particular time. “ Troy: I done seen a hundred niggers play baseball better than Jackie Robinson. Hell , I know some teams Jackie Robinson couldn’t even make! What you talking about Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson wasn’t nobody , I’m talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don’t care what color you were. Come telling me I come along too early.”(Fences Page 10) Troy points out the idea that Jackie Robinson was inadequate in comparison to the previous African Americans baseball that never made it to the major leagues. The scene also reveals the emotional toll of his dream being crushed affected his ability to allow his own son to dream. “ Troy: I told that boy about that football stuff. The white man ain’t gonna let him get nowhere with that football. I told him when he first come with me with it.”(Fences Page 8) Both Langston Hughes and Troy Maxon were around the same age group when they felt compelled to move forward because they could not camouflage the color of their