Response to Do The Right Thing Homework Assignment

Vikki LaMorte
English 1101
29 January 2018
Professor Young

Do The Right Thing 

Does the script provide a point about doing the "right" thing? What is the "right" thing to do according to the script?

      The script of Do The Right Thing provides a point about doing the "right" thing. The point that this script is trying to convey to the audience is being able to confront the differences that set apart one another in order to build friendships and relationships to each other. In order to do the "right" thing, confrontation and rioting may have to take place according to the script. The "right" thing for Buggin' Out to do was to start a riot involving Radio Raheem, a fellow African American, to riot against the lack of Black famous people photographs upon alongside the Italian-American photographs that hung in the Wall of Fame of a white owner's business, Sal's Famous Pizzeria. The rioting of having the same equality as fellow humans in the script stands as the most important concept of the script. By confronting the idea of having some African American photographs alongside the Italian-American photographs only started the beginning of the riot. Blacks in the script were disrespected and stood of that of lesser value and equality to those of the Whites in Brooklyn during the time in which the script was written. When Mookie showed up the next morning after the rioting occurred to get money from Sal shows exactly the "right thing" to do. Mookie confronted Sal for his pay after he had thrown the trash can through his pizzeria window the night before. The confrontation only lead Sal to put the differences he had with Mookie to the side and gave Mookie what he had deserved, his money. By Sal giving Mookie the hundreds of dollars signifies that in order to move forward with one another, that the differences had to be sorted out of the way. In the end of the script Sal says to Mookie about how he can finally have a beach day to himself and that Mookie can enjoy his time as being a Rockefeller. The "right" thing to do according to the script may have not been straightforward to get to the point, but in the end the script comes full circle.