Symbolism is very prevalent throughout the plot of Battle Royal. Two of the authors symbols that where eye-catching was the narrator’s grandfather’s speech and the dancer, but the author still showed the white man’s power with these symbols. The author placed the symbols in an order where the reader could effortlessly catch them, continuously throughout the story.
Readers are introduced to the narrator’s grandfather being on his death bed, giving a speech on being obedient to the white man (conforming to the life the white man had set up), when in the white man’s presences but to do that opposite when not. The grandfather’s speech was the first sign of symbolism, which the narrator did not grasp the true meaning of. The grandfather wanted the