battle royal
"Battle Royal" is a story about a black boy that is psychologically wakened when he overhears what his grandfather says at his deathbed to his father. This boy, before he realizes who he really is, and his social standing in the society that he lives, is searching to find himself. However this search is filled with many obstacles, because he lives in a time when people of his status are conditioned to act, talk, and behave in a certain way.Our hero's journey toward the light (truth) is started a long time ago. However in the beginning he is unable to get on the right course, due to the wrong advice he is given by different people; he says it as "All my life I was looking for something, and every were that I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction" (448). Because each time that he accepts their advice he is little by little pushed off the right track. It is not until he realizes that he is searching for himself, and instead of asking others questions, he needs to ask the questions to himself. Once he discovers whom to turn to, he begins a long and difficult journey in which he realizes that he is a unique person, he puts it as, "I am nobody but mysel
They even give him a prize, a briefcase and a scholarship to a University. At that point our young friend's problem is clear. Our hero is also made to participate in this activity. The note read, "To Whom It May Concern, Keep this Nigger-Boy Running"(459) This is the point that he realizes that the nice things that he has been given is not for his benefit, but he is being bout with these gifts. I never told you, but your life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. At the end of the story we finally see how his morality becomes constant with the reality that he lives. In his mind he literally sets himself between two hard places. The night after the Battle Royal he has a dream. "I was shocked to see some of the most important men of the town quite tipsy. This tactic of keeping your enemies fighting each other, so you can control them easier has been used numerous times in history. This new perception of life now cleans away his old principals, morals, and ethics and sets him up with new and renewed ones.
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