Ellisons Battle Royal

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Term Paper Title	Ellisons Battle Royal
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Ellison's "Battle Royal"

Ellison's "Battle Royal"

     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 like animals.  The woman dancing
represents the sick pleasure derived from the boys' torture.  Ellison shows us a
picture of the human mind, in seeing something to lust after then watching young
men being beaten nearly to death as a form of entertainment. He does this to
show us a view of human nature.
     In oppression to the torment the boys developed a sort of counter attack.
The boys were so eager for the the fake money that they suffered electric
shocks to grab it.  I think this sort of surprised the audience, beings that the
boys never gave up the fight.  It was as thought giving up would have meant
giving up much more than money or a boxing match.  It would have been a loss of
dignity and pride, none of them wanted to lose that. Also, by the time the boys
were given the chance 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 things.  Each time I made
a decision I had to be critical about what was good and bad for myself.  Even if
I didn't do anything wrong I blamed myself for things that would go wrong.
     My battle with low self esteem was an ongoing problem.  It pretty much
got to the point where I didn't even realize I was doing it to myself anymore.
The words I said, although not all true, I believed completely.  I had put
myself down so much, that complements were never taken seriously.  I tried to
break my habit of putting myself down by setting goals for myself.  This helped
a little but I honestly don't think I wanted help back then.
     Finally it got to the point where I knew I had to do something.  This
was the time when I felt most powerless.  I didn't think I had any control over
how I felt.  Half the time I couldn't decipher whether ...

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