Quotes From Battle Royal

In the novel Battle Royal, I feel as if it is a story full of subliminal messages. At this time of the story there is still segregation of some sort I believe. So therefore, young black males and females were still looked down upon. As the in the story as the grandfather mentioned it is a war that we are fighting and we have to “keep up the good fight.” The grandfather on his death bed referenced himself as a spy, and told his son to “Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ’em with yeses, undermine ’em with grins, agree ’em to death and destruction.” The son then soon realizes that he is already living in the steps of his father in which, he is very honorable by very important Caucasian people in the town. A young black male basically was blindfolded and put into a boxing ring to fight, for the amusement of Caucasian people. Being that in this point and time, that if a black male is caught looking at a Caucasian female, he could eventually be hanged. The community leading Caucasian citizens tries to fright young black males from the high school to dare to look at the female they were groping. Then the next day the narrator is giving his graduation speech and from his mouth being so sore from the fighting yesterday instead of saying “social responsibility” he says “social equality.” The …show more content…
This story shows several events of racism towards black males at that time, where in today’s society we still get looked upon as the lesser ethnicity. When a Caucasian person interviews a African American with the same credentials as a Caucasian person interviewing for the same position, that Caucasian person is more likely to get the job than that African American. Even today, we are still fighting the same war that the grandfather mentioned and we are trying to use guerilla warfare tactics to defeat the