Battle Royal

In the "Battle Royal" the narrator goes through a lot of racism and difficulties. The narrator’s main struggle involves the conflict between how others see him, and how he sees himself. "I want to get at that ginger colored nigger. Tear him limb from limb"(Ellison). The real problem was that he wasn't aware off who he was, and not aware off the racism going on all around him. But as the story goes on, he is put in a situation where he and other black men are blind folded in this boxing ring. They have to fight their way out of the ring. The boxing ring is symbolic of the black community and how the whites blind black people into believing that the only way out is to fight their way out." Everybody fought everybody else. No group fought together for long. Two, three, four, fought one, then turned to fight each other, were themselves attacked" (Ellison). The boxing ring also represents the many hardships that the black people endured while they fought to be treated equally in the United States or keeping the black community from uniting or even to gain freedom.