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Everyone in the world can relate to being impatience for something that they really don't want to happen.in the story, War Of The Wall by Toni Bambara there are three character narrator and lou also the painter lady.The kids stumble upon someone painting their favorite wall that they love to play on and they will do anything to stop her.Should they stop and and see how she is going to make it or just try to run her out of there Town?Toni Bambara shows how that you can judge someone from the outside and try and stand in there shoes for once and see how they feel about them.“Scribbling all over the wall like a crazy person and that's all she is good for.”(pg.111)This shows how him and his friend disagree with her drawing just because they don't like her and that she is drawing all over their favorite wall.This is saying that he does not care if it looks good because he just hates that she is painting on it.This shows how him and lou hate what ever she does to the wall.But …show more content…

I can relate to when I would try to think of ways to get something back from my mom or dad that they took away from me.Once when I was really little I painted the carpet and my parents took away all my favorite movies to watch so I knew that did not work so i tried not to do that because it never worked.”I recognized some of the faces like Martin Luther King and much more.”(pg115) I knew they would end up loving the wall in the end because it has such good people who have done great things for the world.The wall just ended being there favorite and is better than the old wall that was old and had no cool art. I can relate to when my dad redid my room and I thought it was going to really bad and take for

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