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Chapter one; motif




the symbolic object being seen during the boxing fight is the blindfold. 

 the quotation would be... 

 "All ten of us climbed under the ropes and allowed ourselves to be blindfolded with broad bands of white cloth." pg (21)

 the cloth is white and being wrapped around his eyes further highlights how the world sees him as invisible as well as how he views the world invisible or "blind" through the white cloth or in a sense veil. he has adopted the "white" blindness the rest of the world sees 
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