For your Fences final essay, please answer one of the prompts below in a standard, 5-paragraph essay. One intro paragraph that introduces the title, author and ends with your thesis. Three body paragraphs in which you make a claim in your topic sentence, use evidence from the text to support it and analyze how your evidence proves your claim. Close with a concluding paragraph that summarizes your points.Explain the play’s (Fences) principal metaphor of the fence.Jim Bono best sums up the play’s overarching metaphor by explaining to Troy, “Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in.” Who in this play “builds fences?” Think both literally and figuratively. Choose three characters that you believe put up fences throughout the play. Explain what each characters’ “fence” is to them, why it’s there, and whether it is intended to “keep in or keep out.”
