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Invisibility Concerning The Battle Royale

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An Analytical Essay Invisibility concerning the “Battle Royale” Here , I am going to write about invisibility concerning “ the Battle Royale “ . Invisibility or being unseen and neglected by others is an important motif in the story . It is the right of every man to be visible and not to be neglected by others . Everyone should be respected by others .All of us are born to be equal to each other . However in the story and really in the real world , some people are looked at and dealt with differently . The black men as well as each minority at any society are not seen by the majority . their rights and goals are invisible as well . Also their past and future efforts and struggles are invisible as they did not achieve anything up …show more content…

First , the narrator of the story is not given a name . That means he is ignored and not identified even by himself . second , when the narrator eanted to introduce himself to us , he was unable to answer the question that should be known by all human that is who am I ? in an answer to that question he said “ It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man! “ . He was invited to the party to be mocked at . that is why all the time , the men with power laughed at all of them and made them join the battle .He had nothing to do with the battle that he joined without any wish or previous knowledge . He was not only invisible and neglected by the white men but also by the black ones . He was left alone with Tatlock in the ring .Also as he says " The other boys ignored me as they congratulated Tatlock and speculated as to how much they would be paid. The time of his speech was invisible . The most important for the white men is to entertain . Even when he was delivering his speech , he was invisible i.e. no one listened to him . They were just speaking , yelling and laughing

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