Do The Right Thing Response

The similarities between "How Bigger was Born" and "Do The Right Thing," was that the way Bigger was the fact that bigger was created by the angry people who surrounded Wright before he wrote "Native Son." When referring to how Bigger was created, Wright stated, "He is product of a dislocated society; he is a deposessed and disinherited man; he is all of this, and he lives amid the greatest possible plenty on earth and he is looking and feeling for a way out." (447) The film, "Do The Right Thing" connects to this quote because Sal and his sons were products of a society where most people were angry with the way things were going. Sal and his sons were also angry due to the way things were going in their lives because they did not like to be around people who were not like them. The anger in their lives were shown when Vito attacked Smiley and when Sali was so frustrated that he broke Radio Raheem's radio with a bat. Sal and his sons had anger because they were not content with the society they lived in and all of the resentful anger they had came out when Sali broke Radio Raheem's radio. These examples are different because even though Sal, his sons and Bigger had anger, they had anger for the opposite reasons. Bigger always had anger because of white people always putting himself down. Sal and his sons had anger because African Americans always bothered them in their restaurant.

My personal response for this movie was that I enjoyed the movie because of the way Spike Lee showed the different sides of races and their beliefs on a common problem in one area. Even though I have the most sympathy for Sal and his sons because the problem was not initially their fault, the problem would of never happened if Sal never lost his temper.I also believe that Radio Raheem did not deserve to die, but it was ultimately his fault in why he did because it was unecessary for him to come into Sal's restaurant blasting his boombox. In the end, no character did the right thing because if no one lost their anger, none of the problems amongst them would occur. I believe Da Mayor's actions when saving the children were the most humane because he sacraficed his life for a child on the street. I lost the most respect for Buggin' Out because if he never had a problem with the picture on the wall, Radio Raheem wouldn't of been killed. The selfish act of making someone put pictures on their wall to satisfy himself ruined many lives that were surrounded by Sal's restaurant. In the end, everything was lost. Lives were ruined, phyiscally and mentally but in the end Mookie and Sal learned that the only way to resolve something is not by doing it with violence.