The Walking Blues Analysis

Both Troy and Bono relate stories of their youth in the south and stories of their associations with troublesome fathers to Lyons in Act One, scene four. Their frequently excruciating recollections give a connection to understanding the likenesses and contrasts of the eras isolating Troy and Bono from Lyons and Cory. Troy's dad, in the same way as other blacks after the abolishment of subjection was a fizzled tenant farmer. Troy guarantees that his dad was evil to the point that no lady stayed with him for long, so Troy grew up for the most part motherless. At the point when Troy was fourteen, his dad saw that the donkey Troy was as far as anyone knows dealing with had strayed. Troy's dad discovered Troy with a young lady Troy really liked and

Bono's dad was just as discouraged about existence as Troy's dad, yet not at all like Troy's dad, Bono's father never gave a fathering or giving part to Bono and his gang. Bono depicts his dad as having, "The Walking Blues," a condition that kept his dad from staying in one spot for long and moving much of the time starting with one lady then onto the next. Bono could scarcely perceive his dad and knew minimal about him. Bono says his dad, in the same way as other African Americans of his dad's era, were "looking out The New Land." As blacks were liberated from bondage and needed to get away from the frequently subjection like states of sharecropping, numerous strolled north in what history calls The Great Migration, to seek after a superior life in the north, especially in urban focuses. As a result of Bono's dad's problematic identity, Bono picked not to father kids, to safeguard he would not forsake a kid like his dad. In any case, as opposed to Bono's reasons for alarm, his dad's identity was not a family attribute, but rather a decision he made to adapt to his specific circumstances. Bono has been faithful to his wife, Lucille for very nearly eighteen