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Social Issues In Fence's Fences

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In the 1950’s there was a huge impediment for blacks to get jobs. The small amount of jobs blacks were able to get were low-wages jobs, like garbage men, which Troy is. For this type of job people did not need any skills, nonetheless education, which blacks were deprived from. There were limited amounts of schools for blacks, nonetheless colleges. In addition, blacks were not able to get loans or even mortgages for houses in black neighborhoods because the bank prohibited it. Black’s where being prevented from prospering with no education, no jobs, and not being able to get loans from banks causing the poverty rate to increase. “35% black families had incomes below the poverty threshold in 1959.” (Ghelfi, 1) Overall, the theme of poverty resorts back to the theme of race. If it wasn’t for racism back in the 1950’s black people would have been able to be had, more job opportunities, and their poverty rate would have been lower. …show more content…

This story also portrays real life issues that people had face and currently face in their life. Some of the social issues are culture, race, family, poverty, sports, and responsibility. At the end all of the issues end up being connected to race, the race caused poverty, it made the father felt more responsible and overbearing, and it prevented blacks from participating in sports, just to name a few. The two themes I chose from the story was race and poverty. Race like I stated was throughout the whole story, it holds Troy back in his job and it showed that because of race people were treated badly in public places. Poverty was displayed towards the way Troy had to life when he first to the city and how he rob for money. Overall, this two recurring themes were the ones who outshine the

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