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Morality vs. RealityThe story "Battle kinglike" is the key in understanding and seeing the relationship between worship and reality. The characters in this story, namely the grandfather and his grandson, undo to us their individuality, principles, morals, and ethics doing so they unfold a map that reveals their mental reality. Because their principals, morals and ethics reveal to us their mental reality, then their mental reality discloses the reality of the caller in which they live in.      The young sons journey toward the illumine (truth) is started a long time ago. However in the beginning he is unable to get on the right course, due to the wrong advice he is pull up stakesn by different people he says it as " every last(predicate) my life I was looking for something, and every were that I turned soul tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction" (448). Each time that he accepts th eir advice he is little by little pushed off the right track. It is not until he realizes that he is clear-cut for himself, and instead of asking others questions, he needs to ask the questions to himself. Once he discovers whom to turn to, he begins a long and difficult journey in which he realizes that he is a unique person, he puts it as, "I am nobody but myself."(449). This means that he is unique and he is who he is, black. However before he comes to this enlightenment he discovers that he is an " unseeable man"(449). He marks himself invisible because in the society in which a person is unheard and unseen by others is invisible.     At that charge up the boys problem is clear. He is a black boy in a White mens world, in which he is not seen or heard. Yet he still does not know what to do about it, well at-least not until he hears his grandfathers wrangling to his father           Son, after Im gone I want you to keep up a good fight. I never told you, but your life is a war and I have been a traitor all my natural days, a spy in the enemys country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lions mouth. I want you to overcomeem with yeses, undermineem with grins, agreeem to death and destruction, letem swoller you till they vomit or develop wide open Learn it to the younguns(449)