For thesis 1: In the story Battle Royal,
For thesis 1: In the story Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison shows that a society in which one group of
powerful men can legally humiliate another group of men without punishment makes social equality impossible.
For thesis 2: The narrator of Ralph Ellison’s Battle Royal learns that in the segregated South of the 1940s, African-Americans were in a constant battle against racist oppression, but had no clear strategy for winning the battle.
Which thesis do you prefer? Why?