Troy’s Legacy
Troy passed
away and passed a lot of himself to us and to his family. Troy had three kids
each of his kids lived with him in different time with his different
personalities. Troy used to be able to hit the ball with his bat and knock it
out of the field without having any trouble but in his personal life he
constantly missed the ball. Troy did what he thought was right and never
listened to people around him which eventually broke his family apart. Cheating
on Rose, kicking Cory out of the house and not being there for Lyons, after his
death his legacy was a legacy of brining his family back together after
breaking it.
Troy’s
influence on Cory is a legacy, Troy was very harsh on Cory he stopped and put
an obstacle to his dream of playing football, he forced him to work to assure a
good life for Cory and every time you go further in the play you will see their
relationship gets worse and eventually Cory is kicked out of the house. Cory’s
experience with his father was a big thing in his life which will make Cory become
a better person than his father because of what he learned in the struggle when
he was living with him.
The conversation between Cory and Raynell is a
legacy, both of them singing together (page 99-100) showed that Troy planted
another seed in Raynell, a new father and a father that was loving which Cory
sensed and made him change his mind to go to his father’s funeral” you go in
the house and change them shoes like Mama told you so we go to Papa’s funeral”.
Troy had a different definition of happiness his happiness is worth his
marriage. He cheated on Rose to be happy “I can just be a part of myself
that I ain’t never been.” I think one of Troy’s legacy is leaving a different
perspective about happiness.
Like you said I do believe that he was really harsh on Cory. But I also think that he was hard on Lyons. He showed him a lot of tough love. "You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. " (Wilson 18)
ReplyDeleteI liked how in this post you address the relationships between the characters "The conversation between Cory and Raynell is a legacy". I also liked that you added happiness to his legacy " I think one of Troy’s legacy is leaving a different perspective about happiness."
ReplyDeleteI believe that Troy was not really harsh to Cory. He was just being his Daddy. He wanted his son to be successful in his life and now he is. As Rose said, “Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't… and at the same time he tried to make you everything he was.” It is clear that there wasn't any bad effect of Troy’s deed on Cory’s life. Whatever Troy did to Cory was in Cory’s favor.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying and I liked the intro in to the blog and how you used things troy did as examples of a good father and how he's always tried to do good things for his family
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