Battle_Royal

Battle Royal Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison 1. Summarize the story. In the story “Battle Royal,” a young black boy is invited to deliver his graduation speech to some southern town’s prestigious white citizens. The story begins with the narrator receiving advice from his grandfather just before he dies. The narrator does not understand his grandfather’s advice and is left to ponder this advice alone. As the story progresses the narrator is invited to give his graduation speech to group of the community’s leading white citizens by his school superintendent, who was impressed by the speech. The narrator was excited for the opportunity and was eager to impress the other whites of the community. The narrator felt that this invitation was “a triumph for his whole community.” The narrator couldn’t have been more proud to deliver his speech again and he was driven to impress the other whites in the community. To his surprise, things didn’t go as exactly as he planned. Upon his arrival at the hotel, he was told since he was there he might as well participate in the entertainment, which was a boxing match between some other black schoolmates. The white story, white, narrator, speech, society, blacks, whites, reader, men, discuss, black, protagonist, african, whom, view, time, things, setting, point, place, fight, boys, being, advice, while, told, thought, symbolic, royal, ring, leading, grandfather, end, deliver, community