MULATTO BLACK PEOPLE AND SON

1067 WD

The bond between a father and a son is one that shapes the son for his journey through life. A father teaches his son based on the things he’s learned throughout his life. In Langston Hughes’s Mulatto and August Wilson’s Fences two fathers with different racial backgrounds try to shape their sons way of thinking. Mulatto a play that takes place on a slave plantation in Georgia highlights the struggle a father Colonel Thomas Norwood a white slave owner has with his son Robert Norwood born a mixed child from a black mother during a time where blacks were considered lesser than equal Norwood still wants to provide the best for his son. Fences a play that took place in 1935 deals with Tony a bitter ex baseball players relationship with his son Corey, who wants to follow in his dads’ footsteps. Both in Fences and Mulatto race and background plays a major part in how these two fathers raise their sons’ and prepare them for the journey ahead. There’s no doubt that a sons relationship with his father is something that is irreplaceable. But, when you have a father that is of a different ethnic decent can that bond be different. In Langston’s Hughes’s play Mulatto Colonel Thomas Norwood a white slave owne