Notes on Fences and Type Eight The Protector
Made From Bone
by Mark Nepo
When I can be the truth,
it grows more and more clear
when it is necessary to tell the truth.
That is, when I have access to the place
with me that is lighted, I don't have
to speak heatedly. I can just give away
warmth. When I am still enough to brush
quietly with eternity, I don't have to
speak of God. I can just offer peace
to those around me.
A tree grows so it can convey wind.
It is not the wind. And a person grows
in order to convey spirit.
They say that animals recharge
their innocence each time they hoof
the earth. And we are reborn
each time we touch what matters.
by Mark Nepo
When I can be the truth,
it grows more and more clear
when it is necessary to tell the truth.
That is, when I have access to the place
with me that is lighted, I don't have
to speak heatedly. I can just give away
warmth. When I am still enough to brush
quietly with eternity, I don't have to
speak of God. I can just offer peace
to those around me.
A tree grows so it can convey wind.
It is not the wind. And a person grows
in order to convey spirit.
They say that animals recharge
their innocence each time they hoof
the earth. And we are reborn
each time we touch what matters.
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Dale's Reflections on Fences & Type Eight
Be aware that this play presents opening words that alert you instantly to Type 8 Themes: Injustice, Justice, Appropriate Use of Force, Protecting the Vulnerable. I see plenty Type Eight themes in the main characters Troy and Rose. Read the play for language, and watch the play for the artistry of two of our best Academy Award winning actors.
Kinesthetic Planning Type: Joined by 9s and 1s. All have a NOW/WHAT-IS/MATERIAL orientation (alleviating a lack of control)
Wings: Wanting a full-force life and authority comes from two goals: 7 “Freedom from Restriction” and 9 “For All”
Primary Value: Justice and Strength
Avoidance: Personal Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses
Archetypal Energy: Gods of War and Protection (Athena and Mars), Kamala Harris, Francis McDormand and Denzel Washington, Awkwafina, Sandra Bullock, Mattie in True Grit, Ántonia in Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Olive Kitteridge.
Style: All on or All off— go big or go home; call a spade a spade; direct imperative speech often mistaken as anger (but is felt as passion); Mack Trucks filled with Marshmallows; What You See Is What You Get (but what I see may be all I know — challenge: denial)
Challenge: Not knowing how much force to bring; misuse of force; DENIAL of one's impact on others...
Virtue: Magnanimity, greatness of heart, protection, vulnerability
Types 2-5-8 Harmonic: Strategic wisdom used to level (+) or annihilate (-) the playing field (Type 5) can join an unhealthy obsession (-) or a sweet care (+) (Type 2) Did you notice how sweet the main characters are at times with one another, their friends/kids, family-- and at the same time can be so powerfully/cuttingly rough?
Be aware that this play presents opening words that alert you instantly to Type 8 Themes: Injustice, Justice, Appropriate Use of Force, Protecting the Vulnerable. I see plenty Type Eight themes in the main characters Troy and Rose. Read the play for language, and watch the play for the artistry of two of our best Academy Award winning actors.
Kinesthetic Planning Type: Joined by 9s and 1s. All have a NOW/WHAT-IS/MATERIAL orientation (alleviating a lack of control)
Wings: Wanting a full-force life and authority comes from two goals: 7 “Freedom from Restriction” and 9 “For All”
Primary Value: Justice and Strength
Avoidance: Personal Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses
Archetypal Energy: Gods of War and Protection (Athena and Mars), Kamala Harris, Francis McDormand and Denzel Washington, Awkwafina, Sandra Bullock, Mattie in True Grit, Ántonia in Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Olive Kitteridge.
Style: All on or All off— go big or go home; call a spade a spade; direct imperative speech often mistaken as anger (but is felt as passion); Mack Trucks filled with Marshmallows; What You See Is What You Get (but what I see may be all I know — challenge: denial)
Challenge: Not knowing how much force to bring; misuse of force; DENIAL of one's impact on others...
Virtue: Magnanimity, greatness of heart, protection, vulnerability
Types 2-5-8 Harmonic: Strategic wisdom used to level (+) or annihilate (-) the playing field (Type 5) can join an unhealthy obsession (-) or a sweet care (+) (Type 2) Did you notice how sweet the main characters are at times with one another, their friends/kids, family-- and at the same time can be so powerfully/cuttingly rough?
- What was your experience of Rose and Troy? And other characters (Bono, Cory, Gabriel) in Fences?
- Did your perspectives change throughout the play?
- Where do you see themes of vulnerability, power, in/justice, the use/misuse of force, denial?
- How do you experience vulnerability? In yourself, in others?
- How much has justice, force and the need to protect the innocent been a part of your life?
- How do you modulate your own force?
- What does this play offer you as new knowledge about Type Eight themes in your own life?