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    People build fences to keep intruders out and to keep their house safe. When August Wilson wrote “Fences” all the characters had different reasons on why they wanted to build a fence or try to get out of the fence. In the story, the fence can also be seen as symbolic of the the things Troy wants to keep out the things that are different. In the dialogue between him and Cory, Cory said “Tell mama I’ll be back for my things.” and Troy say, “ They’ll be on the other side of that fence”(2.5)

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    I have something embarrassing to admit. Over the summer, I was part of a secret rebel group dedicated to overthrowing totalitarian-like moderators on an online forum dedicated to a children’s game. The revolution started after the creation of a hate blog called Pandora, which featured cruel rumors and poorly written opinions on various members of the forum. I, along with many other members, started a private investigation on the identity behind Pandora but to little avail. I had a gut instinct

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    Kent Rasmussen, in his essay, “Places Discussed” claims that Troy Maxson’s fence acts as a reflection of the characters desire throughout the play. Rasmussen supports this statement by first claiming that the reason that Troy procrastinates building the fence is because it represents confinement; he wants to resists its limitations. He supports this by stating from the novel, “some people build fences to keep people out. And other people build fences to keep people in” and the unfenced yard allows

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    (1) There are hundreds of literary references within the plays to events in the history of the de Vere family and also to their retainers eg Sir John Folstoff (2) Edward de Vere was known as both “Spear Shaker” at Court (reinforced by the Earl becoming a champion at Jousting) and also as ‘William’ when he left the care of the Cecil family (which may well have been in mockery at his close association with members of the middle and lower classes) (3) The first performance of a number of Shakespeare’s

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    WALL-E, a Pixar film whose target audience is children, tells an incredibly complex story for adults about the future of humanity. The scene unfolds some seven centuries from now, when the Earth has undergone a complete environmental collapse, a sort of fatal and global toxic shock. The planet is all dirt-brown vistas and dead cities, and not a living creature to be seen. Earth has become a giant landfill. The planet’s only citizen seems to be a sanitation robot named Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation

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    WALL-E is a robot, but the last of his kind. He is left alone on Earth, after humanity has abandoned it, in order to clean up society’s mess with the other WALL-E robots. Centuries later, the WALL-E robot that is depicted in the 2008 movie is the last of his kind. Throughout the movie, the director engenders messages that depict a biblical meaning, but also calls out humanity on their consumerism, environmental treatment, and societal interaction. First, director Andrew Stanton develops a biblical

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    What Is WALL-E?

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    WALL-E is a Disney film about a robot who is trying to save a planet that is full of trash and waste. WALL-E, the robot, feels like he is put on the planet for a reason, and that reason is to help people and make the world a better and cleaner place. Then another robot, named Eve, comes down from a spaceship. WALL-E then ends up falling in love with her and follows her wherever she goes to make sure that she is okay and safe. Through the film I noticed that WALL-E is very unselfish. I noticed this

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    The setting of the first two movies indicate that Tris and Tobias spent their lives trapped inside fenced-in modern day Chicago. In the movie Allegiant, we finally get to see the word beyond the fence. In the fenced in Chicago after the mini faction war, all you saw was ruins, dead people but if lucky enough, you could see a cute animal. Over the fence there were billboards with colours and words that were so pretty and mesmerising. Tris and Tobias, the main members of the Allegiant, are in love

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    Fences Symbolism

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    The title “Fences” can be a simple meaning. A fence is usually used in enclosing an area to make a boundary. Indeed it is used to mark a boundary in this story. Also, Troy and Cory are seen building a fence throughout the story. They build a fence and it becomes more complex through the play. The Fence is a important part of the story because of the process of building it and also how it is used as a symbol. Troy and Cory are seen discussing about the fence when Cory says Troy is not responding the

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    Noshin A. Hossain Symbolism of the “Fence” August Wilson did not name his play, Fences, simply due to the melodramatic actions that take place in the Maxson household, but rather the relationships that bond and break because of the “fence”. The “fence” serves as a structural device because the character's lives are constantly changing during the construction of the fence. The dramatic actions in the play strongly depend on the building of the fence in the Maxson’s backyard. Fences represents

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