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Battle Royal


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 keens use of symbolism. I intend to prove, using textual evidence, that
through the use of symbolism, the author portrays a larger meaning than what is
initially implied to the reader who does not thoroughly analyze the text.
Initially, the story seems to be about one black boy's struggle to get
ahead in a prodominetly white society. He tries' to accomplish this goal by
adhering to his grandfathers dieing words. His grand father told him to "live
with your head in the ...

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is equal to
not only the struggle of this one black boy, but the struggle of all blacks at
the time in which this story takes place.
I think that if one were to analyze the grandfathers dieing 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 mostly killed by anti-black groups
such as the KKK.
There was one symbol in the story that stood out especially in my mind
and that was the stripper. She was a tall blonde haired blue eyed woman with a
tattoo of the American flag on her belie. I think that the stripper symbolized
the perfect American white woman, something that a black man could strive his
whole life to attain, but would never receive. This was a symbol of the many
things that a white man could have, whereas a black man could not.
I believe that the blind folded boxing in the story is a representation
of ...

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