... Sambo, the main character, the "Battle Royal" that he will have to fight in during later parts of the story. The author also hints constantly that Sambo will become an activist for Black's right and thus follow in his grandfather's footsteps. When the grandpa says, "Learn it to the younguns" (Ellison148) he his foreshadowing that the "younguns", in this case, Sambo, will ... would have been what they wanted . . . everyone praised me and I was invited to give the speech at a gathering of the town's leading white citizens." (Ellison 149) Ellison uses quotes like these throughout the story...

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