What would it feel like to always be looked down upon, no matter circumstances or how well you are doing? To wake up every day with the thought that you are a human being but to be proven otherwise. If you finally had you chance to accomplish your dream but it was a just an accomplishment to you and no one else. If your life had no meaning to know one besides yourself. Well than this is why you should read Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison. In the Story by Ralph he takes us back to his teens when his Grandfather told him “Son, after I’m gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days.” (1410) This had importance because it explains his life and his dreams. Ralph was a
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Ralph Ellison was growing up in a tuff time. He was a black man defying the odds and socials standards placed on him. In this time a black man wasn’t able to do many things. A black person in that time was only one thing to the world. To get out of these social standards was vigorous work. You not only had to be better you had to have the heart to push through the people holding you back. In this Short story he was the top of his class and an amazing writer but that wasn’t enough because of the color of his skin. There was the conflict of social acceptance for black people, no matter how intelligent you were. It was not right for a person to be treated like this. It’s one thing to be considered a joke to your pears but not the world. As a human being it’s not right treat others like they are just a scum of the earth. In this time, it must not have been your character that defined you, it must have been your color because a white man was considered better rich or poor. In the story the boys were paraded around like show monkeys. At one point they were laughed at while trying to retrieve coins from an electric rug. The boy in this instance was scared and they knew they didn’t have much money so they went for the coins anyways. The society was the major conflict and blacks were the main project for …show more content…
He used things like the fight to show that Blacks have no choice in a matter. When they got in the ring they had to fight to the death. The ring was showing what black life was supposed to be like. He used it in a way to give people a reminder that nothing in the world has changed. The people went from slavery to forcing them to fight like animals. It shows that the times have not changed. They just got better at justifying what they were doing at that time. Ralph Ellison through the whole thing was trying to Keep his dignity while trying to remember his speech he had worked so hard on. In that instance Ralph Ellison was showing the reader that Black people go through so many harsh things in this society that it’s so hard to keep your dignity and make it to the next day. He shows that there are a reason black people are just doing the same things as before, it’s because black people take so much and a one point you will give in to the pressures of
Ralph Ellison was growing up in a tuff time. He was a black man defying the odds and socials standards placed on him. In this time a black man wasn’t able to do many things. A black person in that time was only one thing to the world. To get out of these social standards was vigorous work. You not only had to be better you had to have the heart to push through the people holding you back. In this Short story he was the top of his class and an amazing writer but that wasn’t enough because of the color of his skin. There was the conflict of social acceptance for black people, no matter how intelligent you were. It was not right for a person to be treated like this. It’s one thing to be considered a joke to your pears but not the world. As a human being it’s not right treat others like they are just a scum of the earth. In this time, it must not have been your character that defined you, it must have been your color because a white man was considered better rich or poor. In the story the boys were paraded around like show monkeys. At one point they were laughed at while trying to retrieve coins from an electric rug. The boy in this instance was scared and they knew they didn’t have much money so they went for the coins anyways. The society was the major conflict and blacks were the main project for …show more content…
He used things like the fight to show that Blacks have no choice in a matter. When they got in the ring they had to fight to the death. The ring was showing what black life was supposed to be like. He used it in a way to give people a reminder that nothing in the world has changed. The people went from slavery to forcing them to fight like animals. It shows that the times have not changed. They just got better at justifying what they were doing at that time. Ralph Ellison through the whole thing was trying to Keep his dignity while trying to remember his speech he had worked so hard on. In that instance Ralph Ellison was showing the reader that Black people go through so many harsh things in this society that it’s so hard to keep your dignity and make it to the next day. He shows that there are a reason black people are just doing the same things as before, it’s because black people take so much and a one point you will give in to the pressures of