... author uses the blonde white woman, a rug, constant lies by the white man, and other symbols to show the various hardships that the narrator must endure, in his quest to deliver his speech, and all are representative of the many hardships that blacks went through and go through now in a fight for equality. The ... dream that the narrator has at the end of the story is very important as well. He tells of his grandfather having him to open envelope after envelope, finally reaching one that held a document. On it was written "To Whom It May Concern, Keep this Nigger-Boy Running"(Ellison 279)...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Thoughts of the Grandfather In Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" Symbolism is used throughout the story. Symbols have more than one meaning than what appears to be the what is going on.. Symbols in this story are contradictory. The main character is also the narrator who tells the story after he has become an educated ... adult. In Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" symbolism is used in the narrator's dream of his Grandfather to make him realize what he ... dream about his Grandfather that he did not understand until he was an educated adult. The dream happened after he went through a traumatic ...

• Word Count: 1010
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School