... 2369) This one statement sums up the general feeling of "Battle Royal", the first chapter of The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. This story is about the struggle of a young black man to discover who he is in a world that keeps trying to keep him from doing just that. [Explain the rebellion/conformity issue for the ... story in more detail.] The narrator in "Battle Royal" is throughout the story struggling with the decision of whether to follow ... his own beliefs and conform to the white man's vision of how a black man should act or to fulfill ... to behave. They wanted to make sure he ...

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