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A 5 page essay that discusses "Battle Royal," which is a chapter within Ralph Ellison's classic novel Invisible Man. The novel's protagonist is an unnamed African American man who begins his story by stating that he is socially invisible to mainstream American culture, "I am an invisible man" (Ellison 441). He explains in the first paragraph of "Battle Royal" that this knowledge did not come to him automatically, not as a "realization everyone else appears to have been born with," he had to learn it for himself and this was an excruciatingly painful journey of self discovery, of which the battle royal, which is described in this narrative, was the first awful step (Ellison 441). The chapter concludes with the narrator relating a dream, which he initially does not understand on a conscious level. The dream presents images that clearly indicate that on a subconscious level, the narrator is beginning to understand his grandfather's enigmatic deathbed message and the fact that he, and all black people, were at that time socially invisible. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to mainstream American culture, "I am an invisible man" (Ellison 441). He explains in the first paragraph of "Battle Royal" that this knowledge did not come to him automatically, not
as a "realization everyone else appears to have been born with," he had to learn it for himself and this was an excruciatingly painful journey of self discovery, of which
the battle royal, which is described in this narrative, was the first awful step (Ellison 441). The chapter concludes with the narrator relating a dream, which he initially does not
understand on a conscious level. The dream presents images that clearly indicate that on a subconscious level, the narrator is beginning to understand his grandfathers enigmatic deathbed message and the
fact that he, and all black people, were at that time socially invisible. The narrator relates his story as an autobiographical narrative. Set in the first half of the
twentieth century, the narrators grandparents were former slaves. He refers to their generation of African Americans being told that they were "united with others of our country in everything pertaining
to he common good, and, in everything social, separate like the fingers of the hand" (Ellison 441). This famous metaphor refers to a speech that Booker T. Washington, educator and
the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atlanta Compromise." Basically, it assured the white
mainstream that blacks would remain content with the social status quo, as Washington indicates in his speech that blacks would live by the "productions of our hands"(Washington 583). In other
words, they would not demand higher education; they would not aspired to membership in the professions; they would demand the political equality promised by the Fourteenth Amendment. The metaphor that
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