The Grandfather's Story 'Battle Royal'

 The Grandfather’s last words seem to cause anxiety because he opened up to them that he was a conspirator/ traitor amongst his own people in that he accepted the part that was given to him without a fight. However, his lasts words of advice to his family was that his way wasn’t a way to live. The Grandfather’s words caused a lot of concern because they have always thought their father lived right, hearing those strong words come out of his mouth gave them somethings to worry about. The grandfather's advice to his grandson is to put up with racism and not by aggressive it or hostile to the individuals who are racist. The grandfather thinks the manner to live with racism is to overcome with yeses and destabilize them with smiles and also agree …show more content…
Ellison’s narrator identifies himself as a "Ginger" colored black who has renowned himself in school, and has given an outstanding speech at his high school graduation ceremony. He has been asked again to present the same speech before a meeting of town notables, and goes to the gathering expecting to be acknowledged amiably and kindheartedly. Instead of such pleasantness, he is shown the very worst and most biased cruelty of the members of the town’s white supremacy organization. The hospitality the narrator expected wasn’t what he met, instead he is cast listed amongst some boys who are to fight a "Battle Royal," in order to make the men at the gatherings to laugh. After being forced to see some seductive movements by a naked white woman, the boys are blind-folded and instructed to ball it out on the mat. And as they punch against each other sightlessly, the onlookers call for blood and hurl abuses on the boys with all manner racial discrimination. They singled out some of the boys for specific penalties. The narrator, undoubtedly by the scheme of those in charge of the gathering, is finally filled with blood and bashed by a bigger boy, and when he gives his speech he is still sputtering blood and swallowing some. The strategy of the whites is not only to feat the battling boys but more …show more content…
The two women came to Solomon, both requesting to be given possession of the child. Solomon's way out was to tell them to split the child in half and share it between the two women. The deceitful mother approved to this way out. However, the actual mother demanded that instead of the baby to be harmed, that the baby should just be given to the other false woman. Solomon recognized that the genuine mother's love for her child would be revealed because she would prefer her child to be alive and given to someone else than for the child to be killed. This story "Popular Mechanics" is similar because it involves two people (couple) quarrelling for the possession of their child. Both couples claims to be worthy of having the possession of the child, and do not want the other to have it. However, the story “Popular Mechanics” does not have a cheerful ending. Instead of coming up with a solution, the couple allowed their hatred for each other get in the way of their child's