I_Never_Learned_Their_Names

I Never Learned Their Names The Unpublished Ellison In the short story “I Never Learned Their Names” has many layers, and multiple meanings to people in different situations. This Ellison story relates to his “childhood, and his early examples of his lifelong fascination with American identity.” As I read the story I was confused about the exact underlying meanings. This is because I hadn’t looked into the story as it related to his early life. However when read again I began to see three main underlying meanings. The Underlying meanings are the personal issues that Ellison dealt with in his life, the journeys that Ellison took and cultures society in which he was living in. The first underlying meaning that I came across in the story “I Never Learned Their Names” was the personal issues that Ellison dealt with in his life. The main two issues that I saw Ellison dealing with was that he was a black man when racism was a major part of the life style, and also his problem that he had with money. Ralph being a black person was the first personal issue that I noticed. In the second paragraph of this story he writes that his buddy “got quite a kick ellison, story, underlying, however, friend, people, names, morrie, never, life, learned, about, work, train, man, didn’t, been, way, traveling, society, seem, second, place, personal, out, money, meanings, meaning, journeys, friends, black, believe, two, took, time, thing, person, noticed, meet, matter, main, issues, first, find, end, ellison's, different, couple, came, because, alabama