Characters
The Tagic Hero of the play.
Who is Troy?
The physical setting of the play.
What is Troy's backyard?
"Theater's Poet of Black America"
Who is August Wilson?
A reoccurring symbol in the play, symbolizes keeping people in or out.
What is the fence?
The character who said, "I don’t want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get... I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn’t getting involved in no sports. Not after what they did to me in the sports."
A WWII veteran who receives disability.
Who is Gabriel?
The temporal setting of the play.
When is the 1950's?
A cycle of ten plays written by August Wilson, each written for a decade in the 1900's.
What is the Pittsburgh Cycle?
What is baseball?
The character who said, "You ain’t never give me nothing! You ain’t never done nothing but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. All you ever did was try and make me scared of you."
Who is Cory?
A character with a name symbolic of their loving personality.
Who is Rose?
The amount of time that passed between the beginning of the play and last scene.
What is 7 years?
The award the play, Fences, won August Wilson.
What is The Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
A symbol for love, growth, romance.
What is Rose?
The character who says, "You know I ain’t never wanted no half nothing in my family. My whole family is half."
Who is Rose?
A struggling musician who gets caught cashing checks that aren't theirs.
Who is Lyons?
The bar that Troy frequented to watch the game.
What is Taylor's?
Where August Wilson is from.
What is The Hill District
Troy's uses this symbol repeatedly in the play to represent the trials he's faced in life; the harbinger of death.
What is the devil?
The character who said, "I need something that gonna help me get out of bed in the morning. Make me feel like I belong in the world."
Who is Lyons?
A character who feels they are living in a shadow, struggling to overcome familial relationship issues.
Who is Cory?
What hangs from a tree in Troy's yard?
What is a ball of rags?
The introduction of the play in the version we read was written by this man.
Who is Lloyd Richards?
A symbol often used during the Harlem Renaissance to represent change, Troy sings about this symbol.
What is trains?
The character who said, "The devil’s strong. The devil ain’t no pushover."
Who is Gabriel?