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"Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight…Live with your head in the Lion's mouth"(174). In Battle Royal, by Ralph Ellison, the protagonist is dealt many expectations. The unnamed narrator is placed in a situation where he instantly must choose between his own dream of college and his grandfather's hope ....
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.... 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 inequali ....
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