Invisible Man Essay On Identity

I Define Who I am, Not my Culture
Ever since I was a child, I feel like I struggled with my identity. To me, I was seen as no one in the eyes of many. I knew I had so much potential but I did not think people thought the same of me which was bad. I have always felt like I was walking between two different cultures all my life. As I grew up, I always had two sides of me: this is my African side and my American side. Overtime, I had to accept the fact that I was always going to be different depending on what group I interacted with. It became very uneasy to manage both cultures when they displayed different values. This concept of life is displayed in the narrator in the novel Invisible Man.
The novel, Invisible Man, appeals to me personally and to me is the most universal. The story behind the unnamed narrator is what I find most intriguing. The …show more content…
This is just the same way as I grew up, I began to reveal my true identity and person. One of these characters is Emerson, the son of one of the white trustees to which Dr. Bledsoe sends the narrator. He was the only white man, who seemed to care about helping the narrator. Emerson exposes the narrator to the fact that Bledsoe gave him horrible letters of recommendation saying that he was never to be allowed back into the school. Over the years, I had mentors who guided in the path of success and showed me a way to fully discover my identity. Most importantly, it feels like a veil has been lifted from his face, he can now see, see clearly, he knows the truth. This segment of the novel spoke a lot to me and how I was easily blinded by many things and it just took an extra something to lift me from my downfall. When I came to the united states of America, “the land of the free”, I was introduced to freedom and the idea that I could follow my dreams and this felt