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...king up and disappearing. Maybe it will “stink like rotten meat,” (6) turning into a sickening reminder of what will never be. Perhaps the dream will “crust and sugar over” (7) saying here that the The dream is the promise of Harlem, and what the blacks hope to find there: opportunity, better living conditions, and freedom from racial prejudice. The poem continues and lists the possible fates of a dream that never becomes reality. It suggests that maybe the dream will “dry up / like a raisin in the sun,” (2-3), basically shrinking up and disappearing. Maybe it will “stink like rotten meat,” (6) turning into a sickening reminder of what will never be. Perhaps the dream will “crust and sugar over” (7) saying here that the of the fear and disappointment blacks faced in Harlem. As the poem continues, the feeling behind a “broken dream” turns more serious and even angry with each verse. The first line of the poem is “What happens to a dream deferred?” (1). The dream is the promise of Harlem, and what the blacks hope to find there: opportunity, better living conditions, and freedom from racial prejudice. The poem continues and lists the possible fates of a dream that never becomes reality. It suggests that maybe the dream will “dry up / like a raisin in the sun,” (2-3), basically shrinking up and disappearing. Maybe it will “stink like rotten meat,” (6) turning into a sickening reminder of what will never be. Perhaps the dream will “crust and sugar over” (7) saying here that the Through African-American struggle for equality and for respect there have been authors and great community leaders who have fought for their fellow brothers and sisters and have tried to establish a way of gathering the understanding of the knowledge through races for the better well being of all. Four important leaders have struggled to bring equality and who have had great impacts on the African-American communities by using writing to illustrate the lifestyles and differences in their community. Also helping elevate or lift up their communities spirits when they have been rejected and trampled on by society. They have been Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”, Langston Hughes’ “Harlem”, Booker T. Washington’ “Atlanta Exposition Address”, and W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”. These four pieces embrace the African-American culture and show how they too are important in our society. Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal” creates many issues of morality and what it has to do with reality. A person’s reality, the person’s mental reflection of the society and or the time in which he or she lives, is consistent, with that person’s morality or standards of right and wrong. “Battle Royal” is the key in seeing the difference between morality and reality. The characters in this story, the grandfather and his grandson, reveal to us their personality, principals, morals and ethics. This story is about a boy who is psychologically awakened when he overhears what his grandfather says on his deathbed to his father. In the beginning the grandson says, “All of my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere that I turned someo...