Grandfather’s death-the narrator’s grandfather died in the beginning impacting Ralph’s life
His high school graduation and the hotel-granted him an opportunity to give a speech on humanity
The naked woman and her dance-symbolic meaning of power to white people (money, sex, and power)
The battle royal-fight that shows the struggle to survive; blacks success and admiration in life limited by white people
Ralph Ellison’s speech and scholarship-how blacks should accept whites point of view of how they are rather than wanting the truth.
Jim Trueblood and Mr. Norton-Mr. Norton listens to Truebloods story about how he impregnates his daughter because he was dreaming
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