Comparing The Battle Royal And The Lesson
The Battle Royal and the Lesson are different, yet similar great fiction written by Ralph Ellison and Toni Cade Bambara. The battle royal descriptions contain minute order, with details creating a word picture of place and setting: “It was a large room with a high ceiling. Chairs were set in neat rows around three sides of a portable boxing ring. The fourth side was clear, illuminating a gleaming space of polished floor.” (Macdonald) which leads to details interchanging with metaphors and similes that suggest the strange and exotic nature of what is happening: The blindfolded boys grope about “like blind, cautious crabs,” The scenes in the boxing ring are particularly effective, with visually expressive phrases cutting quickly from image
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Many of her stories are told from the point of view of young African American girls, and her essays and lectures seek racial and gender equality (Champion). Moreover, Bambara was a political and social activist, participating and leading events and organizations that aimed to promote equality in terms of gender, race, and class. Although "The Lesson" primarily explores classism, it also exposes racism and serves as a fine example of the types of political and social issues that were prominent during the time. The Lesson" is packed with social implications. One major point of the story is the criticism of a capitalist society, in which wealth is unequally distributed. Distribution of wealth is such an important concept that Miss Moore often tells the children that "where we are who we are" (415), linking financial standing to identity …show more content…
It shows their impoverished living conditions: Sylvia mentions "winos who cluttered up our parks and pissed on our handball walls and stank up our hallways and stairs so you couldn't halfway play hide-and-seek without a goddamn gas mask" The two authors involves the reader so deeply in the experiences of his narrator that one shares both his pain and his confusion and uncertainty. The virtue and politeness of the authors, who are basically trying to get their points across, are so effectively conveyed us readers that of all races and cultures can understand the special problems that he
Many of her stories are told from the point of view of young African American girls, and her essays and lectures seek racial and gender equality (Champion). Moreover, Bambara was a political and social activist, participating and leading events and organizations that aimed to promote equality in terms of gender, race, and class. Although "The Lesson" primarily explores classism, it also exposes racism and serves as a fine example of the types of political and social issues that were prominent during the time. The Lesson" is packed with social implications. One major point of the story is the criticism of a capitalist society, in which wealth is unequally distributed. Distribution of wealth is such an important concept that Miss Moore often tells the children that "where we are who we are" (415), linking financial standing to identity …show more content…
It shows their impoverished living conditions: Sylvia mentions "winos who cluttered up our parks and pissed on our handball walls and stank up our hallways and stairs so you couldn't halfway play hide-and-seek without a goddamn gas mask" The two authors involves the reader so deeply in the experiences of his narrator that one shares both his pain and his confusion and uncertainty. The virtue and politeness of the authors, who are basically trying to get their points across, are so effectively conveyed us readers that of all races and cultures can understand the special problems that he