Lil Cory Monologue

It is obvious to the audience that Troy and Cory simply do not get along. The two are constantly bickering, mostly about Cory's dream to play football at the college level. Since playing baseball did not get Troy anywhere, he feels that football will not benefit Cory and that Cory should "get recruited in how to fix cars or something where he can make a living" (8). Troy constantly denounces Cory's dream and pressures his son to quit the highschool football team so that he can work at the local grocery store. The verbal abuse of Cory by Troy is enough to make Cory question whether or not his own father even likes him, but it is not until after Troy's affair with Alberta is out in the open that Troy and Cory's unhealthy relationship reaches a whole new level.

Gangs have a lots of love for each other. “ Randy was supposed to be too cool to feel anything, and yet there was pain in his eyes .I'm sick of all this. Sick and tired. Bob was a good guy. He was the best buddy a guy ever had. ”. This quote shows how much Randy loved Bob and the bond between the two guy Bob was

“Come on, try some,” my dad beckoned. “We might be filling up on it if the rest of the food is bad,”

Cory is very aware that his father is envious of his athletic accomplishments. Troy also has no respect for Lyons and he does not support his dream to be a musician.

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Frank Gottie is one of the most well known gang member of The Eight-Tray Criminal Hoover in Memphis.  Gottie believes that gangs are becoming to spin out of control, that it needs to be a solution to gang activity. On July 10, 2016 Gottie says “I ain’t never seen heaven before, but it was like a Memphis heaven everybody was on one accord “, if the gangs could be on the same page for Black Lives Matter (Jones and Fretland, 2016) . Why can’t it happen for the youth? Ar’tavius Brown was 18 years old and joined a gang called the Pirus the Blood Alliance. Brown joined gang activity in South Memphis because he saw “people with the cars, with the money”(Goggans, 2014). Brown was put with the ramifications of having a gun shoot out at Central High school,but the judge saw something within Brown and gave him a second chance.

Where Cory has aspirations of playing football, Troy says that he must continue with his more practical job at the A&P.

As horrible as gangs are, gang members themselves believe that they are beneficial to inner-city society. A former Gangster Disciple, for example, maintains that gang life taught him a lot: "I grew up without a father and I turned to my Disciple brothaz for love. They knew exactly how to treat a brotha and were always there for me, through thick and thin" (Douglas 162).

One of the differences that complicate their relationship is that they have grown up in completely different time periods. A great deal has happened between the times when Troy was growing to the time period that Cory is growing up in. This issue itself causes many other concerns. For instance, Cory is a very talented athlete. He would like to play football in college and would probably receive a scholarship

After a fight in Act Two, Scene Four, Cory runs away in almost the same manner Troy did it when he was only fourteen years old, where he had a big fight with his own father as well. But the difference between him and Cory is that Cory is not going to end up in jail like Troy did. He goes to the Marine and becomes a military man.

educated boy that he was, Troy would have no one to be jealous of, not evens Lyons, and

He did not want Cory to have to deal with racism that he faced also so he tried to keep Cory away from it. Cory is hurt that his father kept him away from his dream, and all the love he has for his father turned into hatred (Anderson). Cory and Troy got into a physical fight and things got really out of hand and Cory left home and went about his life

Cory pleads with his father to allow him to quit his job at the grocery store to be fully involved in football. Nevertheless, his father does not accept which bars Cory from joining the high school team. This shows that Troy is not sensitive to Cory’s wish, but on the contrary, he has the will to fight for his rights which sees him rise to become a garbage truck driver in the city. It is sad that he denies his son the opportunity of becoming a sportsperson. To make matters worse, Troy cheats on his wife Rose but show compassion to his brother Gabriel who is mentally disturbed. Gabriel got a head wound when he took part in the World War II, and his friendship with Bono is firm.

"Are you gonna ice cream me some Mack?" My little brother turns around to look at me, his dinner all over his mouth.

Those arguments are the conflict of the story, and so Cory contributes to the conflict of the story, and so he contributes to the plot. If Cory didn't want to play football in college, there would be no reason for Troy to be mad at him and the story would have no plot. Cory is important in every part of the story. In the exposition, Troy talks about Cory's football dream with Rose and Bono and they have a small fight because of him. In the rising action, Troy and Cory have their first few fights about him playing football and the climax of the story is when Troy and Cory have their last and final fight. In the falling action, Troy dies and Cory comes home to tell his mom that he isn't going to go to the funeral. In the end of the story, Cory ends up forgiving Troy. The entire play Fences is about Cory and Troy and their relationship, and so he is very important to the plot of the play.