Fences MAJOR GRADE assignment Due Friday 4/29 (5/1 if you are absent)

To Complete this assignment you will need to have finished Fences. The themes of The Creation of Order, Freedom vs. Protection, Personal Apocalypse, the American Dream, and The African American Difference are crucial to any understanding of character in Wilson's Fences. 

 

Of these FIVE themes SELECT THREE and apply them to a Major character who you think  best represents a particular theme. For Example You may think ROSE works best for The Creation of Order, and Freedom vs Protection while TROY is appropriate for Personal Apocalypse or The African American Difference...choose whichever combination works best for you (as long as you do not use ONE character for all three and as long as you use ROSE for at least one). 

 

THEN Create a Representation of that character (drawing/collage) in relation to that particular theme. Your character must have:

 

1. A statement of who they are LITERALLY and FIGURATIVELY (metaphorically/symbolically). ex. Lit: Billy Parham is a cowboy, Fig: He is the mythical hero of new adventure standing alone, self-reliant and ready to confront whatever awaits him with his own unique and inherent resources. He is like Adam from the Bible

2. Character Traits, 2 Quotes that best represent WHO they are and HOW they define him/her and a character that "foils" them (and why). He is innocent, noble, idealistic, near-sighted, a drifter, reactionary, stubborn, lost ....is foiled best by the "she-wolf".

3. A statement about how others PERCEIVE Them with supporting evidence.

4. A statement about how they PERCEIVE others/the world with supporting evidence.

5. A symbol relevant to the theme and an explanation of how it develops meaning for the character and the play in terms of this theme (the literal and figurative meaning). ex. Blood: literal....; Fig: Binding agent, commonality, family, essence, truth of existence...

6. A Representation of the setting with a statement about how it impacts the character's life (with text support) and reveals theme.  A violent, atavistic border world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." It is a setting where God is silent and even powerless. Billy's attempts to create order from this landscape are doomed to fail because they rely on the christian belief in good and evil, and not the inevitable, immutable reality of the natural world: life and death.

whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique and
inherent resources - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/revisions-of-the-american-adam-9781441187079/#sthash.paKNDdis.dpuf

7. A Clear Statement that summarizes how theme is revealed in this play and SO WHAT? What are we supposed to learn/understand about life and the human experience. 

ADD EVERYTHING UP!

When you are finished you will have three DIFFERENT Representations to submit.

You may create small posters (Legal size or larger FRONT AND BACK for EACH) or you can create this digitally with any number of multimedia applications. EXTRA CREDIT: Create a representation of GABRIEL, examine HOW he opens HEAVEN'S GATES and explain why this so essential to the play and the lives of the characters.