The book Invisible Man is about a young black man who struggles throughout his life specifically with his identity. The setting is in the deep South and later in Harlem, during the 1920s to 1930s. The book starts with the narrator claiming that he is an “Invisible Man”, because the world cannot accept him for who he is but make him what they want him to be. The narrator then proceeds to tell his story of how he received a scholarship to attend a college for Negros, however he had to give out a graduation speech in which he was humiliated by the white school superintendent and other important white people from town. Eventually, he becomes a student at that college and is introduced to Mr. Norton whom is a rich white trustee. The narrator gets
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Therefore, he gets a job making optic white paint for a paint factory and ends up getting hurt from an explosion. As a result, he is sent to a hospital where he is experimented on by white doctors and once he was released he was helped by a woman named Mary. Eventually, the narrator joins an organization that supposedly fights for black equality called the Brotherhood. However, the Brotherhood uses him for their own purposes thus, leading him to leave them and meet Ras, who believed the narrator is against the black community. A riot occurs and Ras orders for him to be killed as a result he runs away and hideout in a manhole. He makes a living in the manhole and writes to relieve himself of everything he went through as well as discovering many things about his …show more content…
The author defiantly adds countless symbols and motifs throughout the book that could be viewed in different ways and sometimes difficult to understand. It was also very astonishing how the narrator had to face numerous of obstacles and people who did not see him for who he actually was but differently. He even had a hard time identifying himself, because of the influence of others including both the white and black community. The narrator was humiliated and abused both verbally and physically for his race that sometimes made me angry and disgusted. This book made me realize how difficult it was to live in a life in which one was always discriminated and had the desire to succeed but stayed in the same
Therefore, he gets a job making optic white paint for a paint factory and ends up getting hurt from an explosion. As a result, he is sent to a hospital where he is experimented on by white doctors and once he was released he was helped by a woman named Mary. Eventually, the narrator joins an organization that supposedly fights for black equality called the Brotherhood. However, the Brotherhood uses him for their own purposes thus, leading him to leave them and meet Ras, who believed the narrator is against the black community. A riot occurs and Ras orders for him to be killed as a result he runs away and hideout in a manhole. He makes a living in the manhole and writes to relieve himself of everything he went through as well as discovering many things about his …show more content…
The author defiantly adds countless symbols and motifs throughout the book that could be viewed in different ways and sometimes difficult to understand. It was also very astonishing how the narrator had to face numerous of obstacles and people who did not see him for who he actually was but differently. He even had a hard time identifying himself, because of the influence of others including both the white and black community. The narrator was humiliated and abused both verbally and physically for his race that sometimes made me angry and disgusted. This book made me realize how difficult it was to live in a life in which one was always discriminated and had the desire to succeed but stayed in the same