The Invisible Man Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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Well-known African-American author, Ralph Ellison, in his novel, The Invisible Man, written in the 1940’s describes the protagonist's triumph in a battle royale boxing match.Ellison’s purpose in his piece is to exemplify the social strifes the black population in America has to go through by saying that blacks are essentially invisible to the white race. Ellison adopts a callus tone in order to show how much of a control the white majority of Americans had over the blacks at the time.
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One rhetorical strategy that Ellison in order to emphasize the difference between the blacks and whites is the use of Symbolism. For instance, in Battle Royale when the narrator was being blindfolded before the fight he described this action by stating "blinded by the white." In this use of symbolism Ellison is trying to illustrate how the white prejudice propaganda is supporting the white sense of superiority over the blacks.
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The surprise that night was that the narrator had to fight in battle royale sponsored by a couple of drunk white men. He had to fight between nine other of his classmates. The only way to deliver his graduation speech he had to win the battle royale.
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By using the phrase “blinded by the white,” Ellison was just trying to demonstrate how a white blindfold was covering his way to his graduation speech but also the white men as well. Also the barricades the whites placed around the blindfolded boxers is another symbolic representation of the fact that blacks are being constantly restrained and garden of by the whites. The white men were essentially cagin the narrator and the other boys as if they were animals, which essentially demonstrates the aspects of
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