Fences

Get on your mark! Get set! Go! From the moment we are born, we enter the race of life. The race to win, to live victoriously, or to be successful in the race of life. Generally, we can say that success is defined as the accomplishment of something attempted. Therefore, anyone can be successful. But, as a society, what is valued as success? I believe society holds unrealistic values for a meaning of success. August …

…because Troy never made it to the major leagues as a baseball player. Therefore, Troy would have to face the fact that it is he who holds himself back rather than the “white man”. Troy believes that his skin color hindered him from being successful as a professional baseball player based on a false notion of white men. However, he failed to recognize that his success was based on his accomplishments and not society’s.