*Why is there so much resentment towad the narrator in the Jolly Dollar?
*How did Clifton choose to make his escape from history?
*How does Ellison use irony on page 438 to show how far Clifton had fallen?
*Explain the significance of the following quote: "They were outside the groove of history, and it was my job to get them in, all of them."
*What happens right before the end of chapter 20 to make the narrator realize the significance of his leadership?
*In the description of the funeral procession, how do the images show the angry pride of the crowd?
*How is personification used to show the power of the music in the procession?
*Why is the narrator envious of the old man?
*How could an old slave song have such power?
*How does the narrator use anaphora (repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs) to make his eulogy more personal?
*What does the narrator mean when he says that everyone at the funeral is in the box with Ted Clifton?
*Has the narrator changed/grown?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edith Wharton
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Ellison
Alice Walker
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When the narrator says that everyone is in the box with Ted Clifton, he is saying that everyone in the Brotherhood revered him and went along with his insights so much that they became dependent on him to lead them, which made them lost without their leader. When Clifton died part of everyone died along with him.
The narrator has changed and grown from the beginning. He started out a naive college student aiming to please everyone. His only focus was school and to learn as much as possible. At the end of the book he became his own person. He felt his speeches took control of him and weren't really what he wanted to say. At the end he said what he felt and became an independent thinker. He didn't just follow the teachers of the Brotherhood or any of the influences in his life.
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