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Summary: This book is about Troy and his family
Review: I red fences in summerschool. I like some parts of the book and others I didn't like at all. I think it is a very good book to make conversations about. People think different about each person in the story. I didn't like Troy at all. I think the book is good, because you can feel with some persones in the book. At certain moments I was angry at Troy. I could understand why he did certain things to Rose. For example he went to another woman, and isn't nice at Cory. I think Rose is a very patient woman. Troy is very selfisch and I don't like him at all. It are very normal things who happen in the story. Exept Troys attitude who is sometimes very bad. I think the title is very good. It is a good idea to call the story fences. The fence comes in the story the whole time, for example in baseball and the fence from his garden en heaven. I think it is a very good book to read in class and hear eachothers opinion about the caracters.
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Summary: I liked the storie because its very interesting
Review: I am a brazilian student and I had to read this book in my english class. I think its an interesting storie, showing us the daily of one poor black family in the 50's, when the racism was too hard yet. But on the other hand I didn't like the Troy's character, because he is a very immature guy who just think in work and try to keep his family away from the white people and the real world.
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Summary: It was very enjoyible to read it
Review: I liked that book becouse I found some similar things from my life.My father is not strict like Troy but after reading that book I understood that he is trying to build a fence araund me.While I was reading it I enjoyed myself and learnt somethings abaut the relationships in not well educated families.
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Summary: It portrays the life of people very well.
Review: I love the way it made me think of how others lived and felt back in the olden days.
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Summary: Fences
Review: "Fences", by August Wilson, is a wonderful play full of reality, comedy, which has a sad ending. If you read this play while in class or with friends you will enjoy it. The author is basing the story on Troy Maxson and his family to basically show how black families in the 60s compare to black families now. In this two-act play, Troy Maxson is the husband of Rose, and the father of two young men by the name of Lyons and Cory. He also has a brother name Gabriel and a best friend name Bono. The main character Troy is basically the man of the house, everyone that lives under hes roof goes by his rules and obeys him. When Troy comes home, he expects dinner cooked and ready to eat. Does he get what he wants? Well that's why you should read this book. In the beginning of the play, their lifestyle was kind of boring. As you get further into the play, it gets interesting. The Maxson family basically ends up in a struggle trying to keep the family together. The message that I get from this story is that you can't trust everbody, no matter how long you've known them. I think one of the things that makes this play nice is how it relates to African-American families. It gives you an actual idea of what black families have to go through, and what is spoken in their homes. If you are one of those curious people who would like to know how most African-Americans live, you should read this book. If you are the type of person who doesn't really like to read, you should just try it and you just might enjoy it like I did.
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Summary: Opportunity and Obligation
Review: A Raisin in the Sun is a great play that reads just as well as seeing a live performance.
The Younger family is living in a run-down apartment looking forward to a check that is coming as a result of the patriarch's death. The story revolves on how this check should be spent. Lena Younger (Mama), the beneficiary, wants to buy a house or her extended family and put her daughter through medical school. Travis Younger, the son, wants to open a liquor store, and Ruth Younger (Travis's wife) wants Mama to indulge herself.
This story is filled with good intentions that have bad results, something that everyone can relate to. The problems in the family are accentuated by the prospect of money. Each issue can be solved with the use of the benefit check, yet it is not large enough to solve every problem. The money emphasizes issues that might otherwise have been ignored while the family went about their daily lives trying to make ends meet. This catalyst brings pride and disappoint, opportunity and obligation to the forefront of this family's life.
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Summary: August Wilson's Best Work
Review: "Fences" is a wonderful drama that can relate to all people. The levels in the play are great because all of the dramatic characters have a comedic side, which balances the story.
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Summary: FENCES IS A GOOD BOOK.
Review: From the opening scene we as audience members are dropped whole into the world of the characters in August Wilson's classic play. The dialect of the characters, the hints of jargon, and the references that aren't explained but simply ARE allow us to be immersed in his setting. This back porch, with its visible foibles (exposed icebox, half-built fence) make Troy Maxson, his family, and his friends into new beings that become larger than their own lives--and very like our own lives.There is nothing in this play we don't all have to face from day to day. Work, marriage, family disputes, mental illness, adultery, violence, and more events populate this play as surely as the characters do. Yet the clear, Sophoclean way they are addressed makes them matter to us in an immediate, powerful way. The play is broken up into two acts, comprising eleven scenes. The first ten take place over a span of a few months, while the final provides an epilogue some years later. Some modern theatre purists will balk at this many divisions, and yet the way Wilson makes them pop will let an audience that loves theatre to both enjoy and understand what's happening to the characters. This is a difficult piece of theatrical literature, yet one of the most important and compelling of the last twenty years. For all its faluts (slipshod editing, internal contradictions, great length) it remains a valuable play, and one that hasn't received nearly the acclaim it deserves.
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Summary: Real people, real world
Review: This is a great play. This is possibly August Wilson's greatest venture into the world of playwrights. Originally he was a poet, which provides an excellent twist for the play. He implies poetic feel into the play itself, but it is also well-balanced. About the play, it is a wonderful and thought-provoking piece about one family and their attempts, hopes, and fears about making it in America. It creates many interesting features such as "baseball" as a form of communication (in the sense that the family is sort of tied together through an interest in the sport). Wilson is a combination of Tennessee Williams and the author of A RASIN IN THE SUN (who's name always escapes me). When reading this, focus on character interactions between father and son. See how it reflects the stress on each respective character. I have no doubt that you will enjoy the play, but beware, if you are someone who has the inability to saw through a thick southern African-American accent, this book may not be the best for you.
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