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Jeffrey Hornburg

English Composition 2

April 24, 2019

Ralph Ellison Comment by [email protected]: Not really a title

Ralph Ellison uses his short story, “Battle Royal” to delineate the suffering that he needed to suffer as a kid experiencing childhood in Oklahoma and the manner in which he was instructed to manage it by his grandfather, who was brought into the world as a slave and suffered Emancipation. The title “‘Battle Royal”’, represents how African American individuals are taking an interest in a consistent fight for reasonable treatment, equity, and their rights as people. Ellison utilizes a wide range of images all through the story to speak to the mental impact that whites had on African Americans. While at a perfectly depicted inn directly before the fight, a naked white lady is moving around the room and the majority of the black men see her loaded up with disgrace and hesitance since they understand how incredibly risky it is for a dark individual to be discovered gazing at a white lady in such a sexual way. This is a dread that has been ingrained in them by whites for a long time (Ellison, 15).

This short story portrays what is resembled to be an African American individual living in a Jim Crow society. In the start of the short story, the storyteller gets some odd counsel from his dying grandfather that truly appears to confuse him. The storyteller's grandfather says, "Live with your head in the lion's mouth,” (Ellison, 16). The boy who is the main character struggles to fit in the society filed with bigotry and racism. There is great influence to the boy’s life due to the words of his dying grandfather. Each day he tries to live his life knowing that he was in danger due to racism. The grandfather told the boy to devisce ways to fit in the largely white community. The boy is successful in his endeavors and thus gains great fortune. Although his success is huge, his grandfather’s words still linger in his mind. During his graduation, the boy gives a speech which he feels is acceptable to the white people. He takes no regard about his personal values and needs but only wishes to pleasure powerful white individuals. The white characters in the story therefore have a strong influence on his decisions in life (Ellison , 16). He is unable to reveal his true self since this would be deemed inappropriate and offensive to the white people. Due to the white men pleasing speech, the boy is given an opportunity to entertain white citizens.

The excitement is soon cut short when he realizes that he is supposed to participate in a ten-man boxing competition to amuse white powerful people. The white men in attendance cheer as black people fight in the ring. Within the process of the fight, the boy reveals his desire to stare at a blonde naked white woman. Ralph Ellison's "Fight Battle Royal," proposes despite the fact that slavery is abolished after post-common war; the African American people group still gets treated unreasonably. Through suffering prejudice so as to push forward in their life and present an inauthentic version of their self not surprisingly from the American South. Inauthentic can be characterized as the African American people group frequently needed to fake it of convincing to the requests of white Americans because of this was viewed as social dynamic in the post-common war period (Ellison, 17). Comment by [email protected]: frag

The storyteller as the young man is allowed the chance to convey his discourse when he is physically harmed all over his body notwithstanding the agony he precedes to his discourse. The men insult him to talk "more intense" when his mouth is "topping off with blood" so he "gulp[s] it down, blood, salivation, and all, and proceeded". The kid needs to ignore the reality of him being physically harmed to finish his speech on the grounds that there is an opportunity the school administrator can offer the kid a chance to better a how his life is despite the fact that "they talked and still chuckled." He narrates his desire to stare at her naked beauty. The black fighters including the boy fight for money amid chaos while the white men benefit with amusement.

The battle royal led to a loss in purpose of the boy’s presence. He was initially meant to give his speech but now the battle had overtaken. As he begins his speech the crowd majorly filled by white men jeers and shouts at him, “Louder!” What’s that word you say, boy?”(Ellison, 16) this is the epitome of the white supremacy. The other characters are chiefly white individuals who show the bigotry against African-American citizens. There were few individuals who among the crowd who appreciated the boy’s speech. At this point the words and attentive nature of these few individuals encouraged the boy to return to his own values and beliefs. The boy says, “But a few of the men, especially the superintendent, were listening and I was afraid(Ellison, 16)” which shows the extent of white supremacy.Towards the end, his grandfather’s words haunt him and direct him towards all he does in the story. He ends up wishing to be like Booker T. Washington but this cannot be realized due to the racism; the boy who represents the narrator wishes and hopes to change the system. He hopes the people who surround him and affect his values would in a way appreciate him due to his intelligence rather than despising him on grounds of his different color. Most characters in the story propagate racism which is the major theme in the story. The boy who is the protagonist hopes to change the society from what his grandfather told him. At the end, he realizes that his presence and contribution means little due to the fact that his life is dominated by the influence of influential white Americans. The boy therefore ends up bending to societal pressure and accepting that the society is against him due to color and race.

Plagiarism F

Works Cited

Ellison, R. Invisible Man. New York: Paw Prints, 2015. document.

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