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fences
Title: fences
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 250 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
fences
As he runs from his home in the American South, Troy Maxson, the son of
a black sharecropper, is borne north by the great migration of his
people searching for the promised land. Unskilled and unwanted, he
searches the streets of distant cities until the day he kills a man to
stay alive. He learns how to play baseball in jail, rises to prominence
in the Negro leagues, but is barred from playing in the …showed first 75 words of 250 total…
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and to the point. Babe Ruth was everything Troy is: large-spirited, a
drinker, and womanizer, physically imposing, and a slugger. It suits
August Wilson's purpose, perhaps, to imply their divergent destinies.
If Yankee Stadium is, by repute, linked with Ruth, then Troy gives rise
to a quite different set of associations: a back-alley of Pittsburgh,
the life his family leads on his garbage collector's pay, the rag ball
he hits with a dusty bat.
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