Main character: john african-american man minor character: son. hotel manager, worker.
<span>The story is about the struggle life of an African-American worker and his son. The son wonders about his different skin color. Because of that, the father explains the different to him and tell him not to listen to other people when they talk about his skin through the story. The message of “The Black Ball” is skin color doesn’t make a different and everybody deserve an equally life.</span>
You would use "he" here because at a later part we encounter "he can graduate" which shows that the doer of the action is a male and therefore requires "he" to be used.
