... to show that two things are separate, and to keep them that way. When August Wilson wrote his play, Fences, he was writing a play about the things that keep people apart. Fences is about separation, the separations between different colors, of man and wife, life and death, and of generation ... I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take and build me a fence around what belongs to me. And then I want you to stay on the other side.(Wilson 77)? Though Troy tries to separate himself from death by building a fence, he also separates himself from his wife by taking a mistress. This separation comes ... re...

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... ). "I also ORDER the food, estimate the credit, PAY the bills and BALANCE the budget. Which means that each steak I order for them... I done reserved TWO for myself." Likewise, Berniece, in August Wilson's Piano Lesson, was focused on the tradition of the family. She was mind-set on keeping the piano in their family. "I ain't selling that piano, Boy Willie. If that's why ... don'ts, etc. The military psychiatrist was encouraging yet stern at the same time. It was good for Antwone because he needed a father figure in his life. Then again, in August Wilson's Fences, Troy was the exact oppo...

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... and Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved), Alice Walker, an African American writer (winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple), August Wilson, an African American playwright (winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for Fences), or Nikki Giovanni, an African American poet, essayist and lecturer. All these contributions of a history are needed when it is stripped away from the ... ...

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