Ellison talks about the power literary art provides a writer through writing not the same story told a million different times about the hardships that black people went through post WWII, but a story that compares the people themselves not through race but through actions. By crafting a character that can go through the trials of the time period and still be a symbol of the changes and the events that they had to go through as a human being.
Ellison talks about his drawing from folk tales he heard whilst working at a barbershop. He was drawing upon the rich culture that so well told stories that many knew were lies but were accepted as truth. Improvisation and word choice were the major players in his writing.
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