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Hello, my name is Jacob stolen today. I want to be telling you about

Battery L written by Ralph Ellison and also the meeting behind

the short story Battle Royale which was written by Ralph Ellison

and real quick, this is just a view of my title slide.

But before we talk about Battle Royale, a little bit about ralph Ellison,

ralph Ellison was born on

March one,

in Oklahoma City and died April 16, 1994.

In 1993 he went to Tuskegee Institute where he actually learned

And went there for music for three years.

But while he was there,

he was fascinated and found himself in the library all the time,

reading and writing, just learning about modern literature.

He just fell in love with it.

A little fun fact about ralph Ellison. He actually did serve in World War Two.

Then in 1936,

he actually found himself in Harlem New York trying to make it as a writer,

which back then a lot of people moved to Harlem

to make a presence in the writing game,

essentially when arriving in new york new york,

he quickly made friends with a lot of other

african american writers trying to make it in literature.

One person in particular that he befriended was

a writer by the name of Richard Wright,

him and Alison got pretty close

And by 1937, Ellison began contributing short stories,

reviews and essays to various pre articles

and here's a little overview of my slide about ralph Ellison here.

Yeah,

Next we're gonna talk a little bit about Battery Oh,

Battle Royal is not actually a short story by itself,

actually is a chapter out of a book that Allison wrote,

which was called Invisible Man.

Invisible man came out in April 14, 1952.

This book came out to address the many social

issues that african americans face back in this time.

Back in this time is uh really racist time here, a lot of racial divide was going on,

tensions between

different races were very high.

Um and battery kind of highlighted that and in battle real,

there's this main character in this main character is a smart young african

american man who graduates high school and his top of his class.

And while being at top of his class at the end of the year, he gives a speech

and uh at the speech, the white people in town really enjoyed it.

They really liked what he had to say.

So, after he gave the speech,

he got invited to come to this gathering with all the rich,

most powerful white people in the community.

Yeah,

what he didn't know was that these powerful, rich white people uh invited him there.

That yes, tell the speech. But they also had a different agenda on their mind

and they tricked them into

putting him in these certain situations,

such as a boxing match blindfold.

And he's put in like three or four different situations like this.

So they're they're crazy.

They're there, there's something you would never do to a human,

it's just a new humane.

But in all these situations that has a deeper meaning,

like it's like what african americans face and normal society,

that's that's basically what they were.

But uh

a lot of the

issues that they touch time or racial issues divide

and also masking masking is something that is a

big part of it,

which leads me to my uh which leads me to my next slide here,

make it really big.

So you can see it, which is uh popular assumptions a about battery off.

And uh two assumptions that I that I picked out, there's plenty,

but these two were the ones that I saw over and over again or how people with money

uh in power rules do not apply to them at all. And others are how it showed the

the problems and issues that african american society faced at the time.

Now these two, these two assumptions and they're true, they're true assumptions.

But I feel as in this world today,

even people with money are seen as equal and the rules don't apply to them at all.

Like a rich,

you never really see rich people going to jail for crimes that somebody that

is homeless would go to jump for. So and also in this time period I feel as

if an african american had the same amount of money,

he was seen as equal as a white male at this time period,

I don't regardless of skin tone if they had the same economic class,

they were considered equals.

Now this second one about how it said the struggles in african american society.

This is true, this is true, but this is not the main, the main,

the thing that he was talking about in his, in his writing of Battle Royale.

The main, the main thing that he was writing is masking.

Masking is a big part of what he was talking about

and here's this blown up once more and just so you can get a good of you know of it.

Now here on my next slide,

I have a few quotes here uh explaining why masking is such

a big part and why it is the meaning behind battery.

Uh, if you can see here,

I have a list of these clouds

and this first quote says live with your head in the lion's mouth.

I want you to overcome them with. Yes, is an amenable grins, agree them to death

in this construction. Let him swallow you till they vomit or burst wide open.

And this actually came straight from the chapter of

uh rent by ralph Ellison.

And this is the reason why I pulled this quote out because it's,

it talks exactly about masking.

Uh you know

living with your head in the lion's mouth.

Living, living life for an african american, uh,

close to the white people are close to the people of power, you know,

white people were seen as dominant figures back in this time period.

So you could

technically call them a lion I guess just because of how dominant they were.

And then whenever he says right here,

I want you to encounter with overcoming with yeses and under

meaning with grins and a gram to death and destruction.

This is sort of what masking is all about, you know, manipulating, tricking,

putting on a fake fakeness about yourself to get

what you want to trick the white people.

So it put yourself in a better situation.

These, these people back in the day african americans, they had to do this,

they are there, they're not in a place where they're equal

at this time, they,

they have to do something to put them on equal playing field.

So if you can trick the opposition's into thinking that you like them

or that you agree with some of the things that they do,

it kind of puts you in a better place essentially.

Uh the next quote that we're gonna talk about it comes from

imagery and battle real chapter of Ralph Ellison's invisible

man and it states the clowns throughout the story

represent black men who put on an artificial smile

to match their humiliation and get what they want.

This just goes to prove that masking is seen all through the story

uh clouds are a big part of this story

and

masking is tricking people into getting what you want,

which is essentially what this kid does whenever

he gives the speech to the white people,

because at the end of the speech, he actually gets a scholarship to go on to college.

So he's getting power and he's getting an opportunity to elevate himself.

If he didn't trick these white people into liking him or thinking that he likes them,

he would never have gotten this opportunity in the first place.

So he's tricking them and putting on a mask,

putting on a fakeness to help elevate himself,

even though it's probably he doesn't like these people.

That's just what he had to do. Yeah.

And then, uh, the second to last quote right here,

it says invisibility functions as the novel's turbulent and tropic energy.

Now, this doesn't talk about masking in particular, but whenever putting on a mask,

it's sort of like you're hiding your invisible to to the other people or

the people around you because you're putting on a different part of you,

you're putting on a different look in order for you to

put yourself in a successful place, a successful position.

Because if you don't ask in this time period, honestly,

or if you don't you don't you can't help yourself,

you can't help yourself to anything better.

And then lastly,

it says, uh, the only way for a black person to excel at this time was to conform

to the right society.

This quote goes hand and hand with the clouds throughout the story

represent like many men put it on artificial smile because that's what

they had to do in order to elevate themselves and put them

in a higher position or a better position to better themselves.

They had to do this, they had to put on the masks, they had to put on a fake personality,

a fake persona.

And then in this last slide right here,

this last slide is just my We're excited.

Yes.

As you can see,

I used all my sources from the introduction and also the quotes right here.

My name is jake sold a and the objective of my presentation was

to tell you about my short story ralph Ellison in the true meaning,

which is masking.

Thank you for your time.

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