The entertainment includes an erotic dance by a naked blonde woman with a flag tattoo on her stomach, which he and his classmates are forced to watch. When he arrived, he discovered that he was to provide part of the evening's entertainment for a roomful of drunken white men as a contestant, along with nine of his classmates, in a blindfolded boxing match (a "battle royal") before giving his speech. The narrator also recalls being invited to give his high school graduation speech at a gathering of the town's leading white citizens. The narrator relates an anecdote concerning his grandfather who, on his deathbed, shocks his family by revealing himself as a traitor and a spy (to his race). He remembers when he had not yet discovered his identity or realized that he was an invisible man. The narrator - speaking in the voice of a man in his 40s - reminiscing about his youth, opens the novel.
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