It is apparent when Ralph Ellison wrote the Battle Royal, he was trying to get many messages across to people. Upon reading the Battle Royal, I feel his messge is saying, that African Americans have to fight for everything they want to achieve in life. They have to fight for their name, their bel...

In A Lesson Before Dying, Grant Wiggins, an African American school teacher, finds himself being torn between “…two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings…” while living in the South. Grant is a very educated person, but is often frustrated by the way he is treated by white people t...