Rivera
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Herbert Rivera
Ms. S. Prince
ENG 1302
20 September 2020
The Superhero in Ralph Ellison’s “King of the Bingo Game”
The Author, Ralph Ellison, of “The King of the Bingo Game” introduces us to an
unnamed character that has a lot at stake while playing the game of bingo. According to the
character she is ill, and he does not have a job nor money to pay for her doctors. This brings him
to point of desperation to win the jackpot in this bingo game. Although he does win the bingo
portion of the game for him to win the jackpot, he must spin a wheel to land in the jackpot. The