In the "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison, there is a part in the story that the narrator is told "We mean to do by you, but you've got to know your place at all times" (Ellison 239). He wrote a speech for his graduation and one of his teachers like it, so the teacher told Ellison to go read his speech in the main ballroom of a top quality hotel. For that reason, Ellison was always debating himself. He had to go through an emotional rollercoaster before he convinces himself that he I invisible. Also, he relates to a young lady that was in the same ballroom as he was in. The only problem he had was he was always confused about things.
             The first thing Ellison understood was that he was an invisible man. He had to understand he was invisible because he was a young black man trying to make it in a so call white person world. He also understood his family background: for instance, "I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed" (231). When Ellison was saying his speech, he thought he was saying it to himself because no one was paying attention.
             The second thing he understood was that he was able to relate to the young lady that was in the ballroom too. She was there for the same reason Ellison and a group of color people were there for and it was for the white men that were there entertainment. Ellison could relate to her because he and the young lady was scared because they didn't know what will the white men do to them, "... fixed-smiling lips I saw the terror and disgust in her eyes, almost like my own terrorand that which I saw in some of the other boys." (233) that was the description Ellison gives of the young lady and the rest of the boys.
             The biggest issues Ellison had debating himself on everything that he was told by the white people. The reason for all the debating was because right...