Invisible_Man

Invisible Man "Keep This Nigger-Boy Running." (2369) This one statement sums up the general feeling of "Battle Royal", the first chapter of The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. This story is about the struggle of a young black man to discover who he is in a world that keeps trying to keep him from doing just that. [Explain the rebellion/conformity issue for the story in more detail.] The narrator in "Battle Royal" is throughout the story struggling with the decision of whether to follow his own beliefs and conform to the white man’s vision of how a black man should act or to fulfill his grandfather’s dying wish and rebel against them. "Battle Royal" is the story of a young black man in the 1950s that is stuck in the harsh world of post-slavery segregation and prejudice trying to make a better life for himself but not knowing how to do it. The narrator of the story, who calls himself "an invisible man" (2359), is a very bright young man, delivering a speech on his graduation day that praised the power of humility (2360). As bright as he is, he is full of questions. His grandfather, very well white, men, man, speech, black, way, story, grandfather, give, 2360, wanted, very, trying, should, people, once, narrator, graduation, community, because, again, young, wishes, wish, tatlock, royalquot, knows, keep, invisible, himself, forced, fight, end, chapter