![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator proceeds to win the “battle royal,” and presents his speech to the wealthy men (17). At the meeting, though, the high-ranked members of the community force the narrator and other black boys to participate in what the narrator terms a “battle royal,” in which they fight each other and attempt to pull fake plastic coins from an electric rug. ![]() ![]() Upon giving an excellent speech about the role humility plays in progress, prominent members of the community invite him to recite the speech once again “at a gathering of the town’s leading white citizens” (17). state in the early part of the 20 th century. The narrator begins the story of his realization of his invisibility at the end of his high school days, as an intelligent and diligent student in an unidentified southern U.S. The actions of both blacks and whites toward the anonymous narrator of the novel during his search for identity lead him to this conclusion. A mere glance at the title of Ralph Ellison’s book, Invisible Man, stimulates questions such as, “Who is this man?” and, more importantly, “Why is this man invisible?” The anonymous narrator of Ellison’s novel begins by assuring the reader that he is, in fact, a real person and is not invisible in the Hollywood sense of the term, but, rather, invisible “simply because people refuse to see” him for who he really is (3). ![]()
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