Battle Royal

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we were all crowded together into the servants' elevator"(175). The boy undergoes a realization that he is, in fact, not a Booker T. Washington as he plans to be in life, but merely a common black man who is in disagreement with his own race. He comes to this realization after being victimized by the white men and forced into battle with men of his own ethnicity.
As a result of the ethnic battle, the boy ultimately lives up to the expectations of the white men. He expects to live with "his head in the Lion's mouth(174)" and undermine the white man with a covert retaliation, but unfortunately he slips his head out of the lion's reach just as the jaws slam shut, forcing him to become a traitor to his own race. The protagonist gives in to the white man by remaining docile to equal rights and actually urging his fellow African-Americans to file into the norms of society by accepting the idea of inequality. After the boy's speech, the white MC says, "Gentlemen, you see that I did ...

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