Comparing The Fences Play And The Zoot Suit

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The Fences play and The Zoot Suit play are the hot topic to appeal the criminal of White society on African-American and Mexican-American, exploiting the discrimination, fairness, equality rights responsibility, and social justice problem in the feudal society in the early decade of the 20. The authors wrote the behaviors and attitudes of characters and how they spent time on their suffering. The passion and the powerful ability, that Wilson and Valdez creates on their characters on the stage. That is the complicated interesting and complex of the emotion scene based on Spanish, English languages, the movement, the costume, the color of the stage and the relationship between people and people inside the decaying society without humanitarian.

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