Battle Royal

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is equal to
not only the struggle of this one black boy, but the struggle of all blacks at
the time in which this story takes place.
I think that if one were to analyze the grandfathers dieing words, one
would find the view of most conformist black Americans. The only way for a black
person to excel at that time was to conform to the white society. Any rebels
that tried to stand up for their rights were mostly killed by anti-black groups
such as the KKK.
There was one symbol in the story that stood out especially in my mind
and that was the stripper. She was a tall blonde haired blue eyed woman with a
tattoo of the American flag on her belie. I think that the stripper symbolized
the perfect American white woman, something that a black man could strive his
whole life to attain, but would never receive. This was a symbol of the many
things that a white man could have, whereas a black man could not.
I believe that the blind folded boxing in the story is a representation
of ...

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