Tyler Jasper
Hr5
Dysfunction and the Future It Gives During the time it took for me to grow as person, mentally speaking, the thing that troubled me most was what would kind of beast, or hopefully man would be the outright controller of my actions, reactions, and thoughts? I would ponder day in and night out about what the consequences of my family’s dysfunctionality would bring me, But it was not until the second semester of English in tenth grade that I would read the play Fences by August Wilson, in which the characters Corey and his father Troy do not have the best father son relationship, which was relatable, giving insight and belief that there was any actual hope for me, before then I would think that the cycle of chaos that somehow seems to be a genetic feature throughout our family’s history would either live on through me, harming the ones nearest and dearest to me, or die when I would inevitably kick the …show more content…
Works Cited:
1.Wilson, August. Fences. N.p.: Plume, 1986. Print. A play and book Written by August Wilson about an african american family that lives paycheck to paycheck. The father is an older man who is troubled by his son who wants to be a professional football player while the father who knows the racism of leagues will prevent him from joining is more content teaching him on how to make an honest living with hard work which creates conflict along with the fact that he later cheats on his wife and then has his wife take care of the child that his mistress left behind after dying due to child
Hr5
Dysfunction and the Future It Gives During the time it took for me to grow as person, mentally speaking, the thing that troubled me most was what would kind of beast, or hopefully man would be the outright controller of my actions, reactions, and thoughts? I would ponder day in and night out about what the consequences of my family’s dysfunctionality would bring me, But it was not until the second semester of English in tenth grade that I would read the play Fences by August Wilson, in which the characters Corey and his father Troy do not have the best father son relationship, which was relatable, giving insight and belief that there was any actual hope for me, before then I would think that the cycle of chaos that somehow seems to be a genetic feature throughout our family’s history would either live on through me, harming the ones nearest and dearest to me, or die when I would inevitably kick the …show more content…
Works Cited:
1.Wilson, August. Fences. N.p.: Plume, 1986. Print. A play and book Written by August Wilson about an african american family that lives paycheck to paycheck. The father is an older man who is troubled by his son who wants to be a professional football player while the father who knows the racism of leagues will prevent him from joining is more content teaching him on how to make an honest living with hard work which creates conflict along with the fact that he later cheats on his wife and then has his wife take care of the child that his mistress left behind after dying due to child