First, all the readings were excellent choices, I’ve learned a lot about different African American writers. Out of all the required literary works; Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is the reading that I took pleasure in. Invisible Man is a captivating, thought-provoking novel. There is something that drew me into the narrator, Jack the Bear. The narrator and I are both African American and are recluses. I felt a connection with Jack the Bear and that’s part of my reason for enjoying Invisible Man the most out of all the other readings. As I read the novel, it occurred to me how not much has changed from 1952, the year it was published. For instance, racial tension is at an all-time high. We have racist individuals, good people of all races and
