"Fences" Essay

"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." This quote, by August Wilson, explains how one can either repeat, or expel the sins of the people that came before us. In the play "Fences", also written by August Wilson, one can observe how two of the main characters deal with the sins of their fathers. …

…many examples, instead of banishing the sins of his father, Troy played host to them. As humans, we are prone to make mistakes as we are not perfect. We are all sinners. But even though we have our flaws, we have the ability to either learn from other people's mistakes, or repeat them. Cory , intelligently chooses to learn from his father's mistakes while Troy as we observed, chooses the latter. Which one will you choose?