Troys legacy

Troy’s legacy is he is a good man and a father. Throughout the book he is always mean and strict but in the end he is always protecting his things. Everything he owns and is always about spending his money right and is always thinking ahead. “Then the wood rot from all that water and you gonna need a whole new roof. Now, how much you think it cost to get that roof tarred?” (32). He is planning ahead just in case something major happens to them so he doesn’t want to buy useless stuff like a tv. When he was growing up his dad was mean, didn’t let them eat, or anything to really support them. He doesn’t want to be anything near that, so he works hard and does everything to support his family. “Sometimes I wish I hadn’t known my daddy. He ain’t cared nothing about no kids. A kid to him wasn’t nothing” (50).  He wants his son to work so he can an independent man. “I don’t want him to be like me! I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get’ (39).

Also when he went to jail because he robbed people and he tried to rob the wrong person and got hurt. While he was in jail, he thought about is life a lot more. He decided its baseball and his girl. “’ Baby, it’s you and baseball all what count with me”’ (55).  Once he got out, they had a kid and he started to work and be supportive.

Troy

In this society, everyone expects a man to support his family no matter what and work to buy things for the house. Like food, car, roof, Tv, just useful things or stuff the need for their family. A man has to do everything in the family besides cook and clean the house.  At the time women couldn’t do anything really because in that time period women didn’t have a lot of rights. He is very responsible because he has money set for bills or when things break, instead of buying Tv’s or cars or just things they don’t need at all, unless he has extra money to do so.

Troy is a good man because he supports his family and pays bills and always has money to fix things. His weakness is his brother because after what happened to him, he feels like it’s his fault and feels bad all the time. Some strength is that he is very firm on what he says and does. He always thinks ahead before he does stuff or buy something. He has a lot of strengths because he lived through a lot of things so he knows what is good and not good, that’s why he is so strong about his opinions.

Our current society thinks men should have a good job, support family, pay bills, mature, etc. I think Troy would live up to it because he is a successful man and is very mature and knows what he is doing. Also if he lived in our society, he would changes ways like let his son play football instead of trying to work full-time.

Legacy and Race

In the article about August Wilson, he was bullied or picked on because he was black. “Only African American student in the school, he was constantly threatened and harassed” (August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 1). He eventually dropped out of school and went to Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. After school he began to write and made good plays, he won like 4 or more awards for NYDCC (New York Drama Critics Circle) Best Play Award. All of his plays got awards besides one. “The first Wilson play not to win the NYDCC award” (August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 3).  His legacy was known for his 10-play cycle covering every decade of the 20^th century.

In the past paper I have read, it talks about the “n-word”.In the article it talks about how young black kids say the “n-word” more and use it as the meaning “friend”. But when a white kid says the word, black people get mad and try to fight him/her. But white people buy the most of the hip-hop music. “Some are so comfortable with the n-word because they’ve grown up on and been nourished by hip-hop. White youths, statistically the largest consumer of hip-hop”. (Lester, 2). Also the word changed so much over the years. “We know that as early as the 17^th century, “nergro” evolved to “nigger” as intentionally derogatory” (Lester, 2). Now a days, it means friend or something along those lines. So everyone should be treated the same no matter what. Everyone is the same.