Jason Armer
Mrs. Disher
3/16/2016
LA Period 1
In my opinion,
stream-of-consciousness stories are great because of the unique way we get to
see into the protagonist. As the story starts in the prologue, you see that the
narrator feels very passionately about being called a racial slur. When you see
him in the first couple of chapters, however, he seems very naïve to the
situation. As the spectators jeer him on watching him make his speech, he seems
oblivious to what is going on. In addition, during the boxing match, he is
unable to put two and two together to figure out that the reason they are in
this laughable predicament are because they are African-American. Having read
this story before, and knowing what is going to happen, I am trying to focus
more on the character development of the narrator. So far, there doesn’t seem
to be anything overly special about him, so it seems interesting that he is the
main character of the story. He seems overly naïve, and he doesn’t seem to
understand the bigger picture of the situations he finds himself in. However,
it does seem quite interesting that the people that allowed him to make the
speech did give him the opportunity to go to college. One would think that people
that hate the race that much would want a man of his race to be uneducated. My
question for you is, what does Ralph Ellison say about society through the
actions and reactions of the white people so far in the story? Ralph Ellison is
clearly painting a picture of the shortcomings of society through everyone
involved.
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