" That narrator observes an American flag tattooed on the belly of a naked woman, whose dance occurs shortly after a school superintendent shouts "Bring up the little shines!"
At one point during this section of a larger work, its narrator is advised to "Live with your head in the lion's mouth" and to "agree ‘em to death and destruction." The shouts of a man named Jackson cause this work's narrator to worry that "he might crunch me between his teeth like a crisp ginger cookie." That narrator observes an American flag tattooed on the belly of a naked woman, whose dance occurs shortly after a school superintendent shouts "Bring up the little shines!" In this excerpt from a larger work, the narrator shouts "social equality" instead of "social responsibility", the latter of which the laughter of a group of white men had forced him to repeat. After a one-on-one bout against a man named Tatlock, this chapter's narrator is tricked into jumping onto an electrified carpet to retrieve gold coins, before finally being allowed to give the speech that wins him a scholarship to an all-black college. FTP, name this separately-published first chapter of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
At one point during this section of a larger work, its narrator is advised to "Live with your head in the lion's mouth" and to "agree ‘em to death and destruction."
“{Battle Royal}” [prompt with "{more specific}" on {Invisible Man} until it is read]