Ellison's "Battle Royal"

Part I of Essay
In Battle Royal, Ellison shows us various things to bring our attention to the pain the minority group suffered. In doing this Ellison shows us relationships between the torment they felt to our feelings for them. When the boys enter the boxing ring, they are shown off li ....

Part II of Essay
.... to chase the money, they were numb from pain. I don't think the new torture methods were really affecting the boys. Their bodies became somewhat immune to the blows after awhile. My battle royal was a little bit different from the boys in the story. I did not really suffer from outside torment. The battle I faced was mostly inside myself. People didn't have to say anything and I would be judging myself and putting myself down. Like the boys in the boxing ring fighting one another, I would have to fight with my own feelings to overcome t ....