Building The Troost Wall Analysis

The article “Building the Troost Wall”, the film Do the Right Thing, and the film Our Divided City all share common issues and shows inequality. The main urban issue that these three share deals with racial inequality. These two films and article shows how different discourses affect each other. All of the rhetors in these examples have their own discourse, but they have similar forms of life which is an example of how these texts and images relate to each other. “Building the Troost Wall” explains how an imaginary wall was built on Troost to show the segregation in Southeast Kansas City. The whites lived in a white neighborhood on one side of Troost and the blacks live on the other side (Gotham, 93). The whites were moving to the more expensive, expanding suburbs while the blacks were living in the low, older income suburbs. Not only did the neighborhoods become segregated by the Troost Wall, but …show more content…
Do the Right Thing is a comedy movie, but yet shows sad real life struggles. Our Divided City was a story told by the people who actually live on the East side of Troost, which shows more emotion because there is only so much these people can do by themselves. “Building the Troost Wall” is a written article that has a lot of statistics shown in data tables which really compares the changing number of blacks and whites in the neighborhoods and schools.
All of the people in these three examples share some common values and interests. They all value their families and safety. Everybody wants to feel safe and making sure their young ones are safe especially. Reaching out for help is helping ensure families that they will be safe in the neighborhood they choose to live in. Every single person in these examples wants to live their life to the fullest despite their different discourses. Coming together as one in Our Divided City, and ignoring the Troost wall can help change some of their discourses for the