Oh Father, Where Art Thou? Thy Son Awaits

troy weight Max password, the main(prenominal) character in August Wil male childs critically acclaimed play Fences, negotiation more or less his experience who was neer t here for him when he was a kid. Born in the southern unite States, where Afri good deal- Americans were racially discriminated during the condemnation, troy weights spawn was evil and tortured him. He feels that he has been really turn outive for his kids and he is what his initiate had never been to him. troy grew up with a vex who thought retchting food on the table and detonating device over the head was the tho thing a father has to do for his family. Despite troy weights attempt to be un exchangeable his father, his style of talking to the kids and request them to respect him makes him exactly the equivalent his father. Fences, is not necessarily about how floor repeats itself-importance, but alike how a per male childs past influences their life and decisions. troy weights father didnt support the family like a normal father did. His father, Maxson Sr. was there only to support his family basic needs food on the table and ceiling over their heads. His father was never there for him or his family. Troy talks about his father being evil because of which nobody could with basis him and also his mother leaving him when he was spring chicken because of his fathers evilness. He saysMy mama couldnt stand him. Couldnt stand that evilness. She ran off when I was eight. She sneaked off adept night after he had gone to sleep. Told me she was coming back for me. I aint never seen her no more. All his women run off and left him. He wasnt good for nobody. (1.4.109)His father was not good copious for everybody and whoever was with him they would only last for few old age and after that they left because Troy thinks Maxson Sr. was evil which is also the main reason why Troy feels his mother left him and Troy when Troy was a young kid. Having a father who was unable to care fo r his son, Troy instantly realizes that he has to mature hurriedly so he can engross care of himself.At a mere age of fourteen, Troy finds himself becoming a slice from a child. He realizes he has metamorphosed into a cosmos from a kid when he and Maxson Sr. get into a fight. When his father finds him flirting with a girl when he was supposed to be working, they pick up a real go at each other. Troy describes the moment as,He had them letter straps off the mule and commenced to whupping me like there was no tomorrow. I jumped up, mad and embarrassed. I was scared of my daddy. But I see where he was chasing me off so he could have the congius for himselfWhen I see what the matter of it was, I lost all fright of my daddy. Right there is where I cash in ones chips a manat fourteen years of age. Now it was my turn to run him off I picked up them reins and commenced to whupping on him. (1.4.109)When Troy whips his father with the leather straps he realizes he has transformed into a man. He feels showing his father that he didnt worship him was good enough to survive in the world by feature self. Since that incident with his father, Troy associates adulthood as being strong enough to stand up for own self. He feels he has nobblet that fighting with his father was the only way to prove him that he had grown up and could take care of himself.Troy thinks that he has freed himself from his father evil influence, reviews his past and tries to learn from his fathers mistake. Since his father was irresponsible for him, Troy is inclined to be a father unlike his father in each and every way feasible but unfortunately that doesnt work out. He turns exactly like his father. He doesnt support his sons Lyons and Cory at all. He is vile to both of his sons but Cory, his youngest son whose dream is to become a football superstar, gets affected and pays the price in earnest when his father shatters his dream by not letting him play. Since he and Troy dont get along, C ory feels isolated. Even when he asks Troy why he didnt like him, Troy respondsLiked you? Who the hell say I got to like you? What legal philosophy is there say I got to like you? Wanna stand up in my calculate and ask a damn fool-ass question like that. lecture about liking somebodyI go out of here every morningbust my buttputting up them loopy every day cause I like you? Its my job. Its my responsibility A man got to take care of his family Cause its my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you (1.3.91 and 107)Troy lets Cory know that what it takes to become a man. The man Troy is referring to is himself and he explains Cory that in order to become the man one has to be responsible. That person has to be able to put food on the table for his family. He also lets Cory know that one doesnt have to love his family to take care of them. The duties and responsibilities bind a man and his family which keep them together. Duty to take care of the family was what Maxso n Sr. did and Troy is sideline the exact footstep of his father.Troy, as a father, spent most of his time with Cory. He was in jail when his eldest son Lyons was born. The relationship mingled with Cory and Troy seems to be futile every time they are together they end up in an argument. Cory feels his father doesnt love him at all. His touch modality about his father detesting him grows even stronger when his father doesnt let him play football. Cory, in order to achieve his dream, quits his job at A&P grocery store so that he can play football. He disobeys his father by quitting his job when Troy had strictly told him to quit play football and look for a steady job. Troy was discriminated when he was young for playing baseball and thinks his son fate will also be the same like him.But he doesnt realize that times have changed and at the same time he is arrogant as well. Cory ends up not playing and as eternally has to obey his fathers decision and forgets about his lifelong dr eam. Eventually one day, he gets tired of Troy and claims his strength by standing up against his father and making him realize that he can take care and survive in the world on his own and leaves the house. Before leaving the house Troy talks to his son and saysYou a man. Now, lets see you act like one. Turn your behind well-nigh and walk out this yard. And when you get out there in the back streetyou can forget about this house. See? Cause this is my house. You be a man and get your own house. (2.4.71)When Troy battles with Cory he feels his son is more than capable to take care of himself and kicks Cory out of the house. He feels Cory has become a man because he stood up for himself. Standing up for own self is the character Troy sees as being an adult. He also realizes that his son has shown enough evidence of maturity when he fights with him. This reminds Troy what he did years ago with his father which is also the reason why Cory is kicked out of the house.Wilsons Fences let s us know that no matter how one tries to forget his/her past, it will always haunt him/her and will also come to play a probatory role in the future. Troy grew up with a father who merely supported him and once beat him to death. Although he tries not being like him, he follows each and every step his father had taken and in the end becomes a mirror of his father. He demands respect, thinks about himself, is unkind and rocky to his sons. Cory pays for the arrogance that his father shows but ends up being just like his father by arguing with him and leaving the house because he thinks he has matured enough. Fences in the end, symbolizes the barriers Troy who has faced and his son Cory who is going to face in life. Wilson in the end gives the readers a hope that Cory will prisonbreak the barrier and become a good father to his kids unlike his father and his grandfather.