Battle Royal
After I read the story "Battle Royal" by Ralf Ellison, I could not restrain my thoughts about issues of morality and what it has to do with reality, from clashing in to one another in my mind. As these two completely different ideas were pushing me to the brink of madness, my mind began to click. The swirling messy cocktail of two abstract ideas started taking shape as I began remembering what I had learned earlier in school, and from my summer readings. At this point I came to the realization that a persons reality, that is that persons mental reflection of the society and or time in which he or she live in, is consistent with that persons morality or standards of right and wrong. I realize that my concept of a person's reality being consistent with morality is quite confusing. I also except the fact that there are always exceptions to rules. In this case it being that some peoples moralities contradicting their reality. However this realization of mine makes perfect sense to! me, and I will attempt to explain my thoughts to you in hopes that by the time you are finished reading this essay you will understand what I mean.The story "Battle Royal" is the key in understanding and seeing t
This means that he is unique and he is who he is, black. The night after the Battle Royal he has a dream. And from that I will show you how the grandson breaks away from the reality that he is been taught to see, and steps in to the light that his grandfather guide's him too before he dies. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppet. Because this society is his reality, he now needs to alter his moral ideas so it will compliment his newly realized reality. he relationship between morality and reality. And it is these words that guide him on the right path to the realization of who he is, and how he needs to start thinking and acting. Yet he still does not know what to do about it, well at-least not until he hears his grandfathers words to his father: Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up a good fight. Eve!n one of the more fashionable pastors. Breaking the walls of ignorance down, and shown in what kind of society he really lives. 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. The characters in this story, namely the grandfather and his grandson, reveal to us their individuality, principles, morals, and ethics doing so they unfold a map that reveals their mental reality. At the end of the story we finally see how his morality becomes constant with the reality that he lives.
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