Invisible Man Sparknotes

The book I read is called Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The summary of this story is that it begins with the narrator in a manhole and he tells us two things that he invisible but this is not physically, also the second thing is that he is living underground stealing electricity from the Monopolated Light and Power company, he has 1369 lights, all wired on the celling of the roof. Then he tells us that at his high school graduation he gave a speech and that it was a great success that he got invited to give a speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citizens. When the day came for him to give the speech, the narrator was first put to shame by making him fight blind folded against other African Americans and after that they made them jump on an electrified rug where there were wadded up dollars and “gold coins”. Then he gave his speech and during it the leading citizens scarcely …show more content…
Then Ras sends two people to beat him up, so then the Narrator goes and gets a disguise that is just some sunglasses and a hat, because of this a lot of people believe that he is Rinehart. Then he get to Brother Hambros apartment and tells him that the Brotherhood is going to sacrifice people. Then Harlem goes into a mass riot, the narrator was dragged into a group of people that where burning down a building he was there and watched it burn then he remembered that he left his brief case in there he run in there and gets it. Then he tries to put on hi disguise but the glasses where broken. Then Ras sees him and throws his spear at the narrator but misses so the narrator grabs it and throws it back and stabs Ras face. Then the narrator runs into jack and others that ask him of what he had in the brief case, so the narrator ran and fell in a manhole and found some matches, he started burning his diploma and the doll Clifton was selling. Then the narrator dreams that everybody was working against