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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 , by Ralph Ellison, the protagonist is dealt many expectations. The unnamed narrator is placed in a situation where he instantl ....

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... but emotional trauma as well, for the boy believes he is somehow not connected to the black race. As he waltzes into the hotel, the boy feels as if he is on a higher level than his fellow black men because he is educated, and he says of his racial equals, "I felt superior to them in my way, and I didn't like the manner in which 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 ...