Tyler Stonework
Professor Jeanty
English 1020
4/26/16
Fences
A statement that Rose made about Troy refusing to let Cory play football, what Rose had said was very true. There is a lot that is changing around Troy and he is only living in the past. Troy is living in the past based off of what happened to him. Troy claims “The white man aren’t going to let him get nowhere in football” (Fences 1116). Rose statement is true because Rose is trying to convince Troy that it is not the same when he was younger things have changed. Before the war they did not have colored boys playing sports at the time, this was the time around when Troy was growing up. Rose states “Times have changed since you were playing baseball. That was before the war” (Fences 1116).
Troy is doing a little bit of both; he does have a point on how the world is because there still is racial …show more content…
I would say yes because it’s almost as if he knows everything that has been going on, he could also be a good teacher just off the simple fact that he has been through a lot. It’s almost as if he had lived through everything and he was still around to tell it. Troy talks about the time he had wrestled with death and how he got through it saying, “We wrestled for three days and three nights. I can’t say where I found the strength from. Every time it seemed like he was going to get the best of me, I’d reach way down deep inside myself and find the strength to do him one better” (Fences 1118). Although Troy had been talking on and on about death he had wanted people to know how he overcame this obstacle. To go back to the question, I also think Troy isn’t a tragic figure because he is still stuck on the past and I feel like that’s all he knows. He hasn’t opened up to the new world new things are to come. Troy is so hooked on the fact that he had been through a lot racial wise and is putting that on everyone else so that they don’t go through the
Professor Jeanty
English 1020
4/26/16
Fences
A statement that Rose made about Troy refusing to let Cory play football, what Rose had said was very true. There is a lot that is changing around Troy and he is only living in the past. Troy is living in the past based off of what happened to him. Troy claims “The white man aren’t going to let him get nowhere in football” (Fences 1116). Rose statement is true because Rose is trying to convince Troy that it is not the same when he was younger things have changed. Before the war they did not have colored boys playing sports at the time, this was the time around when Troy was growing up. Rose states “Times have changed since you were playing baseball. That was before the war” (Fences 1116).
Troy is doing a little bit of both; he does have a point on how the world is because there still is racial …show more content…
I would say yes because it’s almost as if he knows everything that has been going on, he could also be a good teacher just off the simple fact that he has been through a lot. It’s almost as if he had lived through everything and he was still around to tell it. Troy talks about the time he had wrestled with death and how he got through it saying, “We wrestled for three days and three nights. I can’t say where I found the strength from. Every time it seemed like he was going to get the best of me, I’d reach way down deep inside myself and find the strength to do him one better” (Fences 1118). Although Troy had been talking on and on about death he had wanted people to know how he overcame this obstacle. To go back to the question, I also think Troy isn’t a tragic figure because he is still stuck on the past and I feel like that’s all he knows. He hasn’t opened up to the new world new things are to come. Troy is so hooked on the fact that he had been through a lot racial wise and is putting that on everyone else so that they don’t go through the