https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1 Under your theme topic, add a direct quote from the text and explain in full sentences how the quote is relevant or significant to the topic. Be sure to include a correctly formatted citation and your name somewhere in the post. en-us 2022-03-03 15:21:02 UTC 2022-03-22 01:47:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076326155 "I ain't worried about them firing me. They gonna to fie me cause I asked a question?"(Wilson 1.1.2). This quote establishes that Troy is a confident man who is not afraid of injustice or of authority.]]> 2022-03-03 17:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076326155 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076332662 Troy's brother Gabe was badly injured in war and received compensation for his injuries. Troy was the one who had possession of the money because Gabe wasn't in the right space mentally to handle it. Troy provided care and love for his brother as long as he needed it. This demonstrates Troy's love for his brother and his desire to support his family through any unfortunate event. 

-tessa ]]> 2022-03-03 17:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076332662 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076335983 "Times have changed since you was playing baseball, Troy. That was before the war. Times have changed a lot since the war." This shows how different the times were "before the war" and how black people had to deal with racial injustice. Rose uses "the war" as a timestamp to show the difference between the 50's and the 60's regarding prejudice. ]]> 2022-03-03 17:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076335983 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076381670 "I thought only white folks had inside toilets and things." (Wilson 1.1.7)
This quote exemplifies how unequal the opportunities that white people received compared to black people. It also clues in to the wealth disparities between black and white families during this time period. In addition to this, the subtlety of this quote shows that this is commonly known and understood as an institutionalized trend of racism. ]]> 2022-03-03 18:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076381670 mharv001 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076437942 "I don't want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get. You the only decent thing that ever happened to me." (Wilson 1.3.39).
Troy does not want his son growing up like he did, in which he tries very hard to raise him right. This reflects how his identity is shown, through the way he treats others and how he thinks about his life. ]]> 2022-03-03 18:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076437942 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076476978 ¨You all line up at the door with your hands out. I give you the lint from my pockets. I give you my sweat and my blood. I ain´t go no tears¨(pg.40) This shows the troy is a very hardworking and he cares about his family and feels a need to provide for them.]]> 2022-03-03 18:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076476978 kblic000 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076695547 "If they got a white fellow sitting on a bench...you can bet your last dollar he cant play! The colored guy got to be twice as good before he get on the team." (Wilson 1.3.34)
Troy doesn't want his son to get involved in football because he believes that black people cannot get anywhere in the field of sports due to racial prejudice. Troy's view of the world is deeply impacted by the racism he has seen/experienced throughout his life. Although Troy's actions seem outwardly cruel, he just wants his son to have a better life than he did and not fall into the same patterns.]]> 2022-03-03 21:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2076695547 bsnel000 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077018493 "Then the next thing you know, its gonna be leaking all over the house. Then the wood rot from all that water and you gonna need a whole new roof. Now, how much you think it cost to get that roof tarred?"(1.3). Cory, Troy's son, asked Troy if he could buy him a new TV. Cory being a kid still, thinks his dad can easily afford a $200 TV set. Troy explains to him that priorities come first because they don't have the money like that. Troy asks him would you pay for a TV or your roof knowing it will leak water in the winter. Cory being young says the TV, then there's the roof leaking water on the TV. So, Troy is saying you need to sacrifice TV for a roof because inevitably the roof is more important. ]]> 2022-03-04 01:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077018493 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077245266 "You got to keep up your grades to get recruited. This way I'll be going to college. I'll get a chance..." (Wilson 1.3.36). When Cory mentions to Troy his plan to get recruited for playing football, he is struck by hostility and angered emotions about Troy's own past. Troy wants Cory to live a comfortable and safe life with a steady job and income so he doesn't have to struggle. Cory wants to go to college and play football, he wants to fight the path that has been paved for African Americans, the one that Troy thinks he should follow. Cory wants to take a "chance" and challenge that path by following his dreams and striving for a further education that can be provided to him with football. ]]> 2022-03-04 03:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077245266 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077261630 "Working every day and can't get no credit. Come back here-Rose'll tell you-madder than hell. Sit down... try to figure out what I'm gonna do."(1.1). Troy is describing his sacrifices in his daily life that he is not happy with. He believes that his hard work everyday is not paying off which is unfair. He is trying to figure out how to help even more he struggles with his society accepting and helping him. ]]> 2022-03-04 04:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077261630 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077549506 "It's my job. It's my responsibility! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family." (Wilson 1.3.38)
After Cory asks Troy if he likes him, Troy proclaims that he does not have to like him as his father, but rather holds the responsibility of taking of him as his father. Troy believes that everything he has provided for his family, including food, shelter and clothes, is sufficient and does not see importance in emotional care. Therefore, Troy withholds the cultural gender expectation that the male figure of the family holds the ultimate responsibility of providing necessities and maintaining the family's structure. Most of the emotional focus would therefore be placed as an expectation of the mother (Rose in the context of Fences)]]> 2022-03-04 08:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077549506 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077820659 "I ain't complaining now. I just say it's foolish. Trying tol guess out of six hundred ways which way the number gonna come. If I had all the money negroes, these Negroes, throw away on numbers for one week-- just one week-- I'd be a rich man" (Wilson 1.2.22).Through Troy's words, he conveys that people, especially those who are financially unstable, should not bet or gamble on things like this because it is a waste. When he says, "If I had all the money negroes, these Negroes, throw away on numbers for one week-- just one week-- I'd be a rich man" he is saying tha the amount that these people pour into this is ludicrous, and instead should be saving it, or spending it on something else. Then again, these people may find that the amount of money that they COULD win, would help them for long periods of time, and they are willing to SACRIFICE their money for that rare, and impractical opportunity.]]> 2022-03-04 12:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077820659 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077887343 " I don't want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get. You the only decent thing that ever happened to me. I wish him that." Troy is remembering his experience in the sports life with baseball and how he got screwed over with it. He says for Cory he doesn't wasn't that to happen to Cory which is why he doesn't support him playing baseball.]]> 2022-03-04 13:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077887343 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077915550 "You my flesh and blood. Not cause I like you! Cause it’s my duty to take care of you!"(Wilson 1.3.38) Troy believes that his job is to only provide for his family physically. He believes that with his families culture he has no need to provide on an emotional level. The only reason he has not kicked Cory out of his house is because Cory is Troy's son. ]]> 2022-03-04 13:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2077915550 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078150049 "I thought only white folks had inside toilets and things"(Wilson pg 7). The idea of having an inside toilet as a non-white person was something that was surprising to Bono. African American living situations weren't good during that time period. Thinking that even inside toilets were something mostly only white people had was normal. With the cultures during the 1950s their expectations of that they should have are very different than they are now.]]> 2022-03-04 15:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078150049 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078150142 "I told that boy about that football stuff. The white man ain't gonna let him get nowhere with that football. I told him when he first come to me with it. Now you come telling me he done went and got more tied up in it. He ought to go and get recruited in how to fix cars or something where he can make a living." (Wilson Act 1 Scene 1) In this quote, Troy is bitter about his son, Cory, getting recruited for football. This reveals Troy's bitterness to his old baseball days in never getting to live out his own dream and playing in the Major Leagues. This also stems his belief in reliance on something "sturdy" and "something where he can make a living"; the reference to a blue-collar job is alluding twords the fact that African Americans' jobs were working class and nothing more. ]]> 2022-03-04 15:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078150142 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078186290 "Sometimes I wish I hadn’t known my daddy. . . . But I’ll say this for him . . . he felt a responsibility toward us. Maybe he ain’t treated us the way I felt he should have . . . but without that responsibility he could have walked off and left us." (Wilson 1.2.50)

Troy explains that while his father showed no affection for his eleven children, he did not run away from the responsibility of looking after them. Troy also said that his father was so evil that no woman ever stayed with him. The women left and he would stay with the children. So Troy’s understanding of what being a father means includes taking responsibility for one’s kids but does not include affection or "liking" them. Troy lost respect for his father and left home. Troy’s leaving his father created another legacy that he may fear to see played out in his own family. He does not want to end up like his father but somehow is turning like him. A father who thinks that giving responsibility is the only key factor to being a good father.]]> 2022-03-04 16:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078186290 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078354975 "I thought only white folks had inside toilets and things" (Wilson 1.1.7). This is a prime example of inequality at that time. Bono states a direct difference between white and black people. During this time period (for the most part), only white people had the luxury of having bathrooms inside. This also shows that most white people were more financially stable and could afford nicer amenities.]]> 2022-03-04 17:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2078354975 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2084301491 "The middle of July, 1941 . It got real cold just like it be winter. It seem like Death himself reached out and 
touched me on the shoulder. He touch me just like I touch you. I got cold as ice and Death standing there grinning at me" (Wilson 11). Troy is reflecting on his time in the hospital after Rose tells him he is going to drink himself to death. His past experience "wrestling" with death shaped how he views it today. He is proud of himself for beating it and is not scared to die.

]]> 2022-03-08 16:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2084301491 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2084505228 "Brownie don't understand nothing. All I want them to do is change the job description. Give everybody a chance to drive the truck. Brownie can't see that. He ain't got that much sense"(Wilson 1.1.3)
This quote shows that Troy is the type of person to stand up for himself whenever he feels that he is in an unfair situation. For example, he wants to be given the chance to drive the garbage truck even when white people are the only ones allowed. He even though about going to his boss then to the Union in order to fix this injustice.]]> 2022-03-08 17:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2084505228 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2087211129 "If my brother didn't have that metal plate in his head...I wouldn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of (Wilson 1.2.28). " Gabriel intentionally sacrificed himself for the war efforts of World War 2 but he also unintentionally made sacrifices for his brother and family. His war pensions allowed Troy to buy his home. Troy also made a sacrifice within himself and to his morality by choosing to use the money.]]> 2022-03-10 01:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2087211129 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2092769037 "The colored guy got to be twice as good before he get on the team." (Wilson 1.3.34)This quote at face value shows about racial prejudice in sports specifically baseball, but it can also represent how often times african americans had to work twice as hard to earn the same respect as a white person in america at the time. Troy saying this also shows that he has not fully healed from his past of sports and how he was treated. He says that there is no path to success in sports as an african american in america because of racial prejudices. Troys outlook on the world is based off of his experiences and emotions, which is why he doesnt want his son to play football. ]]> 2022-03-14 00:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2092769037 https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2106491692 "Yeah I got it. You know why I got it? Cause I dnt throw my money away out there in the streets. You living the fast life...wanna be a musician...running around in them clubs and things...then, you learn to take care of yourself. You aint gonna find me going and asking nobody for nothing. I done spent too many years wihtout" Wilson (1.1.13) Troy is talking about his sons life and going into how he worked for the money he has and his son needs to get his stuff together and stop relying on him fro money]]> 2022-03-22 01:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ms_taylor12/p68fences1/wish/2106491692