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Troy is a middle aged Black man that had a hard childhood as a kid never having real parents to take care of him. Troy met a girl when he was growing up and he had one of his sons, Lyon with her. As he grew up he went to jail, and grew a passion for baseball. As he was in Jail he found one of his life long friends, Bono. After he got out of Jail he met Rose which he would marry and have his son Cory with her. Troy found a Trash guy job and took it knowing that it would secure a payment. He bought a house with Rose and they were together until Troy had an affair with a girl named Alberta and he knocked her up. He named the baby girl Raynell and asked Rose to help take care of her which she did. a couple years later Troy dies

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Troy is very stubborn. If you ask Troy to give you money or help you with something he might do it but that would probably be the last thing he does for you.
For example, "You keep that 10 dollars and take it when you bout to ask me for money"
When Lyons borrowed money from Troy and tried to give the money back Troy didn't want it because he thought Lyons was just going to keep asking him for money and Troy thought if Lyons just kept the money he wouldn't ask again.

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Troy is very Selfish.  Troy doesn't really care what other people think and the only reason why he would take care of you is because it would be his duty to. He wouldn't care how you felt about him as long as he is doing what he has to do. Unless you make him happy, he really doesn't care about you or what you think. For example in the play he says this, " You my flesh and blood. Not cause I like you! Cause it’s my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you!"
This just shows how he doesn't even care how his son feels about him, he just cares that he has done his duty as a father. Troy could've turned this around into saying that he loves his son but he honestly probably doesn't and it makes him very selfish.

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I really do not sympathize with Troy. Maybe at the begging of the play I would've but throughout the play he just gets worse and worse as a person. Troys strengths are just not caring what literally anybody says and just doing what is best for him and if it isn't good for other people, then well, tough luck. Troy however, has very few weaknesses. He refuses to give up on what is his and if something is taken away from him he has a huge breakdown like when Alberta died having Raynell. Troy is kind of a heartless person that I definitely could not sympathize with.

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This piece of art was by Leroy Neiman Willie. This piece of art relates to Troy because usually whenever he is trying to give a life lesson he always talks in baseball terms for some reason. When he was warning Cory not to misbehave or talk back to Troy he would say it in strikes. When he was talking to Rose about how he cheated on her he was talking about Baseball and how it relates to life. Troy is always talking about he should've been on the baseball team and he is always talking about it to his friend Bono or pretty much anyone he meets.

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Troys motto: "Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself"

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Troys motto: "Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself"

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Troys motto in this play and what he lives by himself is, "Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself". This is his motto because  he is always talking about how he earned everything he had and nothing was just handed to him in life. He went from having nothing in jail to having a great family with a job and house. Troy does live up to this motto and this is what he wants for his kids as well. Some say it is bad that he wants nothing more from his kids but it is nice that he wants something good for his kids. Troy values keeping what he has earned. I know this because he is never trying to get more than what he has. He always says how he never tries to get more and risk it all and he tries to teach Cory this as well when he told his coach to not let the recruiter for Cory come. Troy is pretty sarcastic but in a serious way. What I mean by that is that Troy always speaks in different terms than he actually means. Troy will talk baseball about when you are about to get in trouble or he will be serious about how he is angry that he didn’t get into the baseball league.

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Here are the Lyrics that I think relate the most to Troy.
"Had to switch up, look at things different, see the bigger picture
Those were the days, hard work forever pays".

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Wiz Khalifa - See You Again (Lyrics) ft. Charlie Puth

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The lyrics,
"Had to switch up, look at things different, see the bigger picture
Those were the days, hard work forever pays"
Relate to Troy because when he was younger he knocked a girl up and then while trying to provide for them he went to jail. When he got out of jail he decided he had to switch things up if things were going to get better, so he put in some hard work and he got himself a wife, a job, and a house without doing anything illegal so he probably did think that "hard work forever pays".

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What I believe the Theme of Fences is Family, and that if you want to keep what you have then you have to show the people you love that you do care and you want them in your "Fences".  A quote from fences that shows this is, "I’m gonna build me a fence around what belongs to me. And then I want you to stay on the other side. See?" This quote really shows how Troy does care about what he has and who he has. Even though he isn't talking to his family in that quote it is nice to know that he actually cares about what is his and that he will do things to keep it as his. Family is very important in this play, even if it isn't described in the loving family most people know. This play shows the reality of what it is like in being in this type of family that loves each other but doesn't show it all that well.