Fences is a great story based on a family struggle and time during the 1960s Troy Maxson the main character is angry at life outcome for him and his family He has so much negativity toward a lot of things If this story were based on todays society Troy would not feel the way that he does He would have a better paying job he would not think sports and his career was about race and his respect for people around him would be better The era for Troy was not for his liking but he worked hard to make
In the play Fences by August Wilson he puts in many metaphors that have meanings that relate to the characters The two important metaphors are fences and baseball in my opinion The metaphors used throughout the book make you think what August Wilson is trying to portray through the character and what it is representing that is significant In the play many metaphors have meaning towards the character saying them Troy constantly uses baseball metaphors in his speech due to the fact that he was in
Fences was written by August Wilson in 1983 The protagonist of the story is Troy Maxson He is described as a big burly powerful vulgar man He is an African American man who works for the sanitation department lifting garbage into trucks Troy struck me as a complicated character Troy suffered through many hardships as a child and young adult These trials have molded him into the man we see He has an intense passion for baseball He was also imprisoned for his early adult life for killing a man in
J B Priestley wrote An Inspector calls at the height of his powers as a playwright The plays purpose put over a pro socialist message to the audience The writer does this by using dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to members of the audience It is a political drama aimed at the upper and middle classes since they were the most likely to see the play The message from the playwright is that each person in a community all have different responsibilities within society that we can al
The theme I will be focusing on is faith in Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is a book that illustrates one mans faith when faced with a disaster The book is set in New Orleans and the surrounding United States during August September and October 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast Zeitoun the main character of the story is a devout Muslim who strongly believes in a God He was brought up in Syria a country with a reputation of stubborn people He believes that everything happens for a reason an
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is a story about self discovery and the rite of passage for young Jody Baxter The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings She wrote the novel about what she knew best she lived in north central Florida where the novel is set The Yearling won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939 The story outlines the life of the Baxter family The story is told over the course of a year in the Baxters life The story is based on young Jody growing
Title of the book is Go Ask Alice Author of the book is anonymous but this is Alices diary The genre of the book is Non fiction the book was publicated August 1972 In the beginning of the story the author makes the setting very nice polite and comforting feeling As soon as she moves away a dark cloud goes over the scene during the bad time she runs away to San Francisco with Chris and tries to live on her She ends up moving back and start living with her grandparents which she loves dearly She
I Have a Dream August 28 1963 a powerful speech I Have A Dream was delivered to over 200 000 people at the Lincoln memorial in Washington D C by Dr Martin Luther King Jr Not only a highly respected activist and heroic leader for civil rights he was a well educated and phenomenal speaker King captivated his audiences by using various strategies such as metaphors repetition historical and spiritual allusions and word choice Some of these techniques will be explained here Metaphorically Kings spee