Fences Review

Fences was a good book. I wouldn't say great because I don't like historical books that have lots of information about a persons life that confuses you a bit, but that's my opinion. If you like those type of books, great (I would like to hear about them in the comments below). The main character's name is Troy and he is a bossy person. He is a very honest man that has a best friend called Bono. His wife's name is Rose. I don't want to spoil the story too much for the people that would like to read it, so I won't be saying much. Although I did like something about this book (play), and that is because it carried a symbol through it all. That symbol was the setting, and the setting was in the backyard. Why in the backyard? I asked myself at first. If it is a story about a baseball player, why not make it somewhere were baseball players are usually at. The author used a clever way of a setting because if he would've placed the setting on baseball stadium, it would be obvious and not that much interest. A backyard is in the back of the house. It's were children spend their childhood. That connecting with the story of Troy because he being who he is because of his childhood. A backyard is also a place where children play sports. Troy is a great baseball player and probably played sports in the backyard with relatives. Most importantly, a backyard is a place where the stuff that we don't see about his family happens. Troy goes through a lot of things with his family. No one knows about it because they only think about him as a baseball player. This setting allows the reader to understand that the world didn't know about what was really going on in his life, only the close ones did. People see from the front yard because that's what we think is happening in a persons life, but the backyard is what we don't see and what we need to understand that is really happening.

Advice to writers: Always pick a symbol to carry out throughout your writing piece because it would make the reader understand what you are writing about and why.