Compare And Contrast Black Like Me And Battle Royal By Ralph Ellison

Black Like Me & Battle Royal Martin Luther King said , " We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Dr.Martin made known that segregation should be stopped because Martin sought for freedom . The blacks were being treated wrongly and did not have their own freedom of rights . This viewpoint favors John Howard Griffin Black Like Me- and Ralph Ellison "Battle Royal " on how each character struggles with being accepted and functioning as one race. Theres a lot of lack of unity between the blacks and whites. John Howard Griffin and Ralph Ellison had to deal with so much to gain unity. Griffin makes it clear about the biggest problem of the blacks, " lack of unity ". (Griffin 32) . The blacks work against

Negros could barely have similar privilege as the whites . The Negros wasn't respected and had to do what they was told by a white people. An old white man insisted Griffin " better find himself someplace else to rest"(Griffin43) . The man didn't want Griffin sitting in the public park because he didn't want go be surrounded by a Negro. The whites had a control over negros because of the laws that are set between the two colors. Whatever the whites say was what the Negros had to follow . "It was main ballroom of the leading .....fought by some of my schoolmates as a part of the entertainment...battle royal came first "(Ellison2). The narrator and his negro classmates was forced to fight for whites for entertainment. The whites had control over the blacks and the whites made the blacks do whatever they said . The Negros wanted attention so they tried everything to get it from the whites. The narrator thought " he could he could get attention from the whites from his speech" ( Ellison11). All the narrator wanted was attention from the whites so that he could feel special and accepted