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We encounter everyday tragedy of self-destruction. In the play Fences written by August Wilson, forces in African-American life are used by Wilson to counteract the story of Troy’s fall from grace. First, Troy was a man of hard work and responsibility. Second ....

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.... but not like anything like his father. Troy doesn’t want him to play sports because of what happened to him. Troy tells Cory that he won’t get to play because of the discrimination. “I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn’t getting involved in no sports. Not after what they did to me in the sports (p.39).” Troy also wants Cory to be a man. He tells Cory to keep with school because he never had an education. He wants Cory to grow up to learn a trade like fixing cars or build houses so they can’t take it away from him unlike an injury in sports. “You go on and learn to put your hands to some good use. Besides hauling people ....