Invisible Man By John Dubois

The narrator calls himself invisible man. He explains that his invisibility isn’t some biochemical accident or supernatural cause but rather to the unwillingness of other people to notice him.He also says “It is as though other people are sleepwalkers moving through a dream in which I don’t appear”The narrator says that his invisibility can be both good and bad. Being invisible sometimes makes him doubt if he really exists. He says that he needs to make others recognize him, and says he has found that such attempts rarely succeed.
He also talks about when he bumped it to someone and the man called him an insulting name so he grabbed his shirt and demand the guy to apologize but the man wouldn’t he ended up head butting him a couple of times till he fell hard on the ground the man started to kick the man who called him an insulting name till the invisible man thought to himself of what he is doing he was ashamed and disgusted. The invisible man isn’t really invisible people decide to ignore him because he’s black, in the story the man also says that he has found a home but calls it a hole no one knows that he lives there he says “I have been carrying on a fight with Monopolated Light & Power for some time now. I use their …show more content…
Invisible man was a famous book and an important voice in the Civil rights movement still is today. Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in 1913 and grew up in poverty, it took Ralph 7 years to make the book. He was accepted to a black college but then expelled for showing how black people really live and ends up working in a factory in New York but then his work catches on fire and Ralph blacks out. While he was blacked out he woke up in a hospital and met someone named Mary who heals his wounds and teaches him more about his black heritage. After that Ralph joins an organization to help the