'Symbolism In The Other Side'

The play, Fences, in conclusion acquires many interpretations of the “fence” that is mentioned variously. Despite there only being one physical fence, it represents many figurative fences throughout the play. The “fence” is signified as having both positive and negative

Segregation has always been present and continues to be. In Bartleby, The Scrivener, by Herman Melville and Passing, by Nella Larsen, segregation is the focal point in both stories, and emphasizes on understanding society through segregation. In order for one to seek justice for themselves and others, one

In the beginning chapters of the book, we get a glimpse of the typical home and community of an African American during segregation. Many Africans Americans were too adjusted to the way of living, that they felt

The author of the book The Other Side wrote this story in a specific tone, and used symbolism throughout the story. A question that may come to mind is, how exactly did the author use symbolism in the book contribute to the making of the theme? One way the author used symbolism is, through Clover’s perspective on how she saw this little girl Annie. Clover and Annie both lived in a time of segregation. This is made apparent when clover said “That summer everyone and everything on the other side of that fence seemed far away.

Blindly, our nation’s black population fought, not always knowing what for, just as the boys in this story fought. The segregation of schools, restaurants, and other public facilities were issues that were fiercely fought over.

In the Fences, by August Wilson shows that life of African Americans in the U.S. in the 1950s with the story of Troy and his family. Wilson uses the symbol of the fence to show the desires of each character like Rose’s desire is to keep her family together, Troy’s desire is to keep death out and to be not bound forever, and Bono’s desire is to follow Troy, his best friend, as an example of the right way to live and to be with Rose and Troy who are basically his family. Rose and the other seen characters represent people and show gender roles of the time, like Rose is a housewife, Troy is the provider. Also Cory is the new generation of emotion over responsibility, Gabriel represents the war heros that were permanently disabled from war

He uses a symbolic representation of new equipment beside the old fence in order revealed the preparation and action of black people to break down the old ideology of white people. If their equipment that prepared for you to change the old fence the only things you need is action, so “By 1957, the hard-won victories of the European immigrants had solidified the industrial might of America” (Wilson 3). The old fence replaced by the new fence in 1957, but still, there is some problem between old and new fences. The old fence is trying to decompose the new like himself and the new fence also does not use his ability, power and time to fight against the old fence.

August Wilson’s Fences was centered on the life of Troy Maxson, an African American man full of bitterness towards the world because of the cards he was dealt in life amidst the 1950’s. In the play Troy was raised by an unloving and abusive father, when he wanted to become a Major League Baseball player he was rejected because of his race. Troy even served time in prison because he was impoverished and needed money so he robbed a bank and ended up killing a man. Troy’s life was anything but easy. In the play Troy and his son Cory were told to build a fence around their home by Rose. It is common knowledge that fences are used in one of two ways: to keep things outside or to keep things inside. In the same way that fences are used to keep

Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

In the short story, The Other Side, there is a separation between blacks and white, or African Americans and Caucasians. Jacqueline Woodson, the author of The Other Side, chose both a deep and very real topic. In this story, she shows her readers segregation that had happened in the past, and that you are not born racist, but rather raised to be. In the first few scenes of the book, you are greeted with a little black girl named Clover, and her Mama telling her to not climb over the fence.

they segregated from whites. segregated from Negroes from everything”. By using anaphora to place emphasis on the duality of what the whites and blacks had to endure as African Americans were taken away from everything. By incorporating the idea of segregation, the author makes the audience feel guilty, yet filled with ambition to solve social inequality. The author reminds the audience that African Americans were not just fighting for voting rights, but rights to perform basic human actions without repercussions, such as using a drinking fountain or entering a

Use of the Fences Metaphor in Describing Racial Injustice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the Song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", and August Wilson's Fences

Fences is a short history written by the African-American author August Wilson in 1985, that follows a tragic flow and explores significant social issues like racism, family conflicts, mental illness and gender inequality that took place in the post- World War II era, and still affecting us today. To support his ideas, the author takes us into the life of its characters in order to examine their societal and self-imposed limitations; also, the effective use of symbols, setting and themes create a broad perspective of this societal issues analyzing its origin, developing and culmination, in order to let the readers make their own conclusions.

The motif of the fence represents the paths that the three girls have to following on their journey back to there family. Is a positive link between Molly and her mother to help her find her way home. The fence not only provides for Molly a way home but also a way to re-establish a connection with her mum and land where she belongs. A route the girls must take in order for them to feel security and comfort once again. Molly understands what she has to do and is determined to not let this barrier keep her from her family. Link back to topic sentence

In the short story, The Other Side, a young African-American girl named Clover had spent her childhood with a fence to separate her home with another white family. Throughout the book, she meets a new friend, her neighbor, and together they decide that someday a deeper thought than the fence would be torn down and overcome. Clover experienced segregation when it had been affecting the whole country. The fence that had separated their homes, Clover and Annie, had indicated the segregation and racism that was happening at the time when they had met.