War Of The Wall By Toni Cade Bambara

In “the war of the wall” by Toni Cade Bambara, the painter girl keeps being called “rude” even though she didn't do much to have the kids call her that. The story shows the struggles in America while also teaching not to make assumptions about people and their motives, bambaras use of irony, and a theme that makes the message of the story interesting and exciting to say the least. The biggest theme in the story is integration, it is started at the start of the story when the narrator says “big kids have been playing handball on the wall since so called integration when the crazies cross town poured cement into our pool so we couldn't use it.” This quote shows how racism impacted the children, even after integration white people still did not