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Ahmed Al Onaizi

Jassim Abdulsalam

11B

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The War Of The Wall

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Summary

Plot

Summary

The narrator and Lou were frustrated that the painter lady was drawing on their wall. They tried everything to get rid of her but nothing worked. One day, the painter lady went to the narrators mother restaurant and started asking for unusual things such as macaroni without cheese.

This just made Lou and the narrator even hate her more. However, the mother was looking at the bright side and didn't judge the painter lady. The narrator and Lou noticed that the painter lady was from New York and found out that in New York people spray painted everywhere even on the subway train. This excited them so they spent their whole allowance on epoxy spray paint. After they came home, they saw that everyone was looking at the wall. They found out that the painter lady was drawing a tribute for her passing cousin to the people of their neighborhood

Exposition

Exposition

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Rising Action

Lou and the narrator were annoyed that the painter lady marched up to their wall and started to draw on it. So they went up to the painter lady and asked her if she could leave but she never did. The painter lady did not have any manners towards the children and would always ignore them.

Climax

The Morris twins offered the painter lady some food but the lady said that she had some food. A few moments later, she arrived at the restaurant where Lou and the narrator work at and the painter lady said that she was starving. Furthermore, the painter lady was asking weird questions to the mother and the mother was getting angry but did not react.

Falling Action and Resolution

After that incident in the restaurant, Lou and the narrator were constantly asking their parents on ways they could get rid of her, but the mother said that she might be a nice person and that they are just misunderstanding her. On the TV, Lou and the narrator watched something about New York and coincidentally the painter lady was also from there. They saw that in New York people spray painted the walls and even the subway train. This made the boys excited and made them spend their allowance on spray paint. On their way back home, they saw that everyone in their neighborhood was watching the wall. Lou and the narrator realized that the painter lady was painting the faces of famous people and some people in their neighborhood. And they found out that this drawing was dedicated to the people of Taliaferro Street and her lost cousin.

Falling Action

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Resolution

Setting and Conflict

This story takes place in America during the Vietnam War Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975.

Specifically, this story takes place in Taliaferro Street.

Setting

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Conflict

Conflict: The main conflict in this story is that the children are frustrated and miserable that a lady was painting on their wall

Character

Analysis

LOU:

Lou is the narrators cousin and he also really hates the painter lady, but he has to control his cousin from killing her.

Main Characters

Quote: “If you lean close,” Lou said, leaning hipshot against her beat-up car, “you’ll get a whiff of bubble gum and kids’ sweat. And that’ll tell you something—that this wall belongs to the kids of Taliaferro Street.” I thought Lou sounded very convincing. (Paragraph 2)

Narrator:

Main Characters

He is the cousin of Lou, in this story he is determined against the painter lady for painting over the wall which the narrator thinks that she has no right to do so. He and Lou come up with a plan to ruin the wall with epoxy but then realize that the painter lady had the same motives as them.

Quote: “You’re not even from around here,” I hollered up after her. The license plates on her old piece of car said “New York.” Lou dragged me away because I was about to grab hold of that ladder and shake it. And then we’d really be late for school. (Paragraph 3)

Lou had to drag me away, I was so mad. We couldn’t wait to get to the firehouse to tell my daddy all about this rude woman who’d stolen our wall. (Paragraph 16)

Painter Lady:

Main Characters

She is a painter lady that is very calm throughout the story. She is Jewish and very picky. She also ignores anything negative about her. All she wanted through out the story is to create a sort of memorial for her lost cousin Jimmy Lyons. So we found out that the painter lady and the boys had the same motive all along.

Quote: "But the painter lady paid us no mind. She just snapped the brim of her straw hat down and hauled her bucket up the ladder." (Paragraph 3)

She wiped her hands on her jeans as the Morris twins offered up the plate and the jug. She rolled back the tinfoil, then wagged her head as though something terrible was on the plate.

“Thank your mother very much,” she said, sounding like her mouth was full of sky too. “I’ve brought my own dinner along.”

(Paragraph 15 to 16)

Papa and Mama:

Main Characters

They don't really care that the painter lady is drawing on the wall. Mama gets mad at her for her picky eating. They get mad at the boys for scheming against the painter lady.

Quote: "Daddy said that in the cities, even grown-ups wrote all over the trains and buildings too. Daddy called it “graffiti.” Grandmama called it a shame."

“I don’t care who your spiritual leader is,” Mama said in that way of hers. “If you eat in the community, sistuh, you gonna eat pig by-and-by, one way or t’other.”

“Wellllll,” Mama drawled, pulling into the filling station so Daddy could take the wheel, “it’s hard on an artist, ya know. They can’t always get people to look at their work. So she’s just doing her work in the open, that’s all.”

Point

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View

Point Of View

The story's point of view is in first person. We experience the story from the narrator's mind, who is Lou's cousin.

Figurative

Language

Simile

" she looked like she was going to tip right over." (Paragraph 12)

Metaphor

"We could have been gophers crawled up into a rotten hollow for all she cared." (Paragraph 11)

Personification

"When a train came roaring into the station all covered from top to bottom, windows too, with writings and drawings done with spray paint, me and Lou slapped five." (Paragraph 27)

Idiom

"Some good aromas were drifting our way from the plate leaking pot likker onto the Morris girl’s white socks." (Paragraph 6)

Onomatopoeia

"it came down with a bang." (Paragraph 21)

Figurative

Language

Theme

Evidence for the theme:

"Me and Lou had no time for courtesies. We were late for school. So we just flat out told the painter lady to quit messing with the wall. It was our wall, and she had no right coming into our neighborhood painting on it." (Paragraph 1)

“You’re not even from around here,” I hollered up after her. The license plates on her old piece of car said “New York.” Lou dragged me away because I was about to grab hold of that ladder and shake it. And then we’d really be late for school. (Paragraph 3)

Theme

The theme of this story is don't judge a person by their looks

Theme Paragraph

I believe that this is the central theme in the short story because in the beginning of the short story, the narrator and Lou were instantly infuriated on how the painter lady invaded their wall and started painting on it instead of thinking positively about her and asking her in a polite way. All they wanted was to get rid of her because they thought that she was a disrespectful person but in reality they don't even know a thing about her.

Vocabulary

VOCAB

Aroma: Odor or smell

"Some good aromas were drifting our way from the plate..."

(Paragraph 6)

Aroma

Beckon: to use a physical gesture to call someone over to you.

"Mama beckoned us over." (Paragraph 31)

Beckon

Trance: a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.

"Then she stepped down like she was in a trance." (Paragraph 15)

Trance

Drawl: to say or speak in a slow manner, usually prolonging the vowels.

“Wellllll,” Mama drawled (Paragraph 26)

Drawl

Epoxy: any of a class of resins derived by polymerization from epoxides: used chiefly in adhesives, coatings, electrical insulation, solder mix, and castings.

"But in a junky hardware store downtown we found a can of white epoxy paint" (Paragraph 28)

Epoxy

Story Questions

Story Questions!

Discussion

  • Reread these paragraphs. Why do you think the painter lady rejected the food from the kids and lied to them rather than telling the truth?

Paragraphs

16 - 20

  • Reread these paragraphs. What does the end of the story show that Lou, the narrator, and the painter lady have in common from the beginning of the story?

Paragraphs

31-33

  • Reread these paragraphs. Why do you think the mother didn't feel offended by the painter lady and spoke optimistically about her to her kids.

Paragraphs

19-26

  • Reread these paragraphs. Why does the painter lady ignore the children from the start rather than talk to them and tell them what she is planning to do?

Paragraphs

1-3

Bambara, Toni Cade. "The War of the Wall."

“‘The War of the Wall.’” Prezi.com, prezi.com/0bm6i1uviuaw/the-war-of-the-wall/.

Citation

“The War of the Wall by Toni Cade Bambara.” Enotes.com, Enotes.com, www.enotes.com/topics/the-war-of-the-wall.

“The War of The Wall.” Prezi.com, prezi.com/woqzayta6bec/the-war-of-the-wall/.

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