Characters
The character who was pursuing a football scholarship.
Who is Cory?
This is the job at home that Cory is helping his dad with.
What is building a fence?
This is the central social issue in this play is...
What is race?
This term means a way a certain group of people speak.
What is vernacular?
Troy and Bono are what to each other?
What are old friends and coworkers?
This character said, "I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get."
Who is Troy?
This is what Cory has done without his dad's knowledge to make more time for football.
What is reduce his hours at the A&P?
This would be the type of conflict demonstrated between Troy and Cory in this excerpt.
What is external conflict?
Into what parts are plays divided?
What are acts and scenes?
What was Troy's relationship with his father?
What is complicated? Troy both believes his father is evil but also respects that his father kept his responsibility to his family.
He wants his father to like him.
Who is Cory?
The big question Cory asks his dad.
What is 'How come you ain't never liked me?'
This is how Cory addresses his father to acknowledge his authority.
What is by calling him sir?
Something that gets a strong reaction.
What is provocative?
Raynell is...
Who is Troy's illegitimate daughter from Alberta. Rose becomes Raynell's mother.
This character offers to hold Cory's job until after football season.
Who is Mr. Stawicki?
This is what Troy believes his son should learn for the future.
What is a trade?
This is what motivates Troy as a parent and husband.
Providing for his family.
To be watchful is to be...
What is vigilant?
Describe Gabriel in as many details as possible.
Gabriel is a war veteran who developed a mental disability from an injury. Gabe's pension helps Troy buy the house. Gabe believes he is working with St. Peter to bring on the Judgment Day. Gabe ultimately is placed in a mental institution buy Troy towards to end of the play.
She is concerned that her husband isn't changing with the times.
Who is Rose?
For Troy, parenting is more about this than love and affection.
What is providing for his children?
This job held by Troy reflects the limited choices for Black American men in the 1950's.
What is garbage collector?
Gabe speaks about this event often; it is the moment when, according to Christianity, the "good" and the "bad" people will be sorted accordingly
What is The Judgment Day?
Alberta is...
Troy's affair partner, the birth mother of Raynell, and passes during childbirth.