Essay On The Invisible Man

In this story there is a narrator who goes by "The invisible man". He is referred to as such because at the time he lost his identity and uniqueness. He barely had any qualities that shined and gave him his own meaning to his own life or at least this is what he thought about himself. "The Invisible man" is on a journey throughout this book to find his own definition, how he fits into the world and in this journey he gets led into different perspectives that are trying to give him an identity without caring about his own feelings or issues. The story starts off with him reminiscing on his past, specifically his school days and the days before he was even able to get into college. He was given the "Honor" of giving a speech that he had given …show more content…
Everyone tripped out when they heard the words "Social Equality" but he was able to get out without a scratch besides the ones he had gotten from the battle royal. At the end of his speech he was given a leather bag and later that night he had a dream. A dream about his grandpa who was trying to show him how he was being played. In college the "Invisible man" had to drive around the founder of the college Mr. Norton and during these car drives he so happened to show Mr. Norton the true livings of the post slave black people. One of the more significant meetings would be the conversation with True blood an Ex-slave who got both his wife and daughter pregnant with his kids. This alone has set Mr. Norton onto a spiral into anger and disbelief, so much so that it leads the narrator into getting kicked out of the campus. From there he went to work in a place that manufactures paint products after trying to use recommendation letters that Dr. Bledsoe (An assistant to Mr. Norton) gave him but in these letters it basically had the words "Do not hire this man" plastered all over them which the narrator found out from one of the other doctors assistance