A fence shows the border.

A fence is a barrier.

A fence protects the land.

A fence is usually broken through.

A fence usually a sign of tension.

A fence is above a certain height, usually.

A fence can be devoured by another.

A fence can hold in something.

A fence is a sign of ownership.

A fence is a sign of imprisonment.

A fence is:

An obstacle

Often put up but very seldom taken down

A barrier to keep your thoughts inside your head.

A sign of tension

Made by hard work

Blocks the sight of the other side

A sign of ownership

Can hold something in or out.

First 25 pages:

Whites versus blacks

Troy versus the devil

Troy versus the world

Troy versus himself

Past versus Present

Important stuff in intro:

They live in a American urban town

Troy Maxson born to a sharecropper

They went deep into debt

Troy become violent because of him

Troy learns the value of work from him

The father needs to take responsibility for his family

Learns the respect and importance of owning land and the value of  an education he does not have one.

His brother is paralyzed from WW2

Blacks and whites are not equal

As he gets closer to death he actually is fighting it.

Setting:

They are barely making it.

Rose wants a fence around the house and There are supplies but Troy is hard to fence in

The family is lacking congruence meaning that they are not on the same page.

Africans were here for a long time but no opportunities.

Europeans came and they had opportunities.

When the sins of our fathers visit us

We do not have to play host.

We can banish them with forgiveness

As God, in His Largeness and Laws

~    August Wilson