In Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison, the author Ralph is an African American guy who has an excellent command over his speech. He is considered the best person in his community. His grandfather was a fighter for the equal rights of African Americans¡¯. His grandfather had told his father that he wanted his father to keep up the good fight. By the term ¡®good fight¡¯, he meant the fight for equality. Ralph was considered the smartest of all. The white men use to tell that he knew more words than a pocket size dictionary. During the period Ralph lived, the life of African America

The short story, ¡°I Stand Here Ironing¡±, by Tillie Olsen is a symbolic representation of a girl Emily who did not have much attention of her mother as every child gets. Still she stood first in an amateur competition in her school. Her mother was proud to have a girl like her. This short story is portraying the life and regret of a young mother struggling to raise her oldest daughter to whom she could not give her love and time, which she should have given. Due to the loss of wages, poverty and dislocation, a wall had grown up between mother and daughter which she always wanted to break. Emily used to imitate the school happenings in front of her mom to make her laugh. Emily¡¯s mother one day just asked that why doesn¡¯t she take part in the school amateur show and one morning Emily phoned her mother at work to let her know that she had stood first in the school amateur competition. This was all because of her in built talent. Now she was asked to give shows in other high schools, even in colleges then at city and statewide affairs. I can feel the pride Emily¡¯s mother would have felt when she says, ¡°Now suddenly she was Somebody,

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