Battle Royal
In Ralph Ellison’s essay “” he describes a Negro boy, timid and compliant,
comes to a white smoker in a Southern town: he is to be awarded a scholarship. Together with
several other Negroes he is rushed to the front of the ballroom, where a sumptuous blonde
tantalized and frightens them by dancing in the nude. Blindfolded, the Negro boys stage a
“, “ a free-for-all in which they pummel each other to the drunken shouts of the
whites. “Practical jokes,” humiliations, terrors—and then the boy delivers a prepared speech of
gratitude to his white benefa ....
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