Battle Royal

Part I of Essay
If I had to pick one out of the many stories that we have read and say that it moved me the most, I would have to say that the story would have to be “”. The reason that the story did move me so was because of the author’s keen use of symbolism, the author portrays a larger ....

Part II of Essay
.... in the story, one would find that the summation of all the symbolism is equal to not only the struggle of this black boy, but the struggle of blacks at the time in which the story takes place. I think that if one were to analyze the grandfathers dying words, one would find the view of most conformist black Americans. The only way for a black person to excel at that time was to conform to the white society. Any rebels that tried to stand up for their rights were most likely killed by anti-black groups, such as the KKK. There was one symbol i ....