Answer any 2 of the 5 questions below:
? Give an example from either Ellison or Hughes's writing that shows a character experiencing "double-consciousness." Be specific. Quote and explain why you think it is double-consciousness.
? Choose a symbol from "The Battle Royal" and try to highlight how you see it working--or find a post where a classmate has pointed out a symbol and try to add to the interpretation. For example, someone in "The Battle Royal" has a tattoo. What is the tattoo of and why might it be an important detail?
? "Theme for English B" is written from the point of view of student and to his teacher. Discuss the way these two figures might see each other. Quote to support your answer.
? "I, Too" and "Democracy" by Langston Hughes both work by contrasting the present with a future time. Discuss the themes in either or both poems and relate them to anything else we have read this semester.
? Relate the DuBois's reaction to Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" to the event in Ellison's "The Battle Royal."