1. The first two paragraphs contain a very straightforward tone because the man is simply stating that society sees him as invisible due to the color of his skin. This can be seen as straightforward because he is merely acknowledging how he has been overlooked by white people in society solely due to his skin tone over the course of his life.
2. Throughout his encounter with the Blonde man the black man thought he had already know that he was black, which is why he lashed out at the blonde man due to assuming the incident was instigated by ethnicity; however, the black man later understands that the blonde man never realized he was black thus finding the situation ironic, for how could a white man be attacked by someone “invisible”.
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Even though the narrator seems to think he is becoming equal to the white men by being able to give his speech in front of them he soon releases that he must partake in the human equivalent of a dog fight, against other black men. Over the course of the fight the narrator faces racist remarks and continually dehumanization, such as the electric rug. Finally after the fight the narrator is allowed to give his speech in a now battered form, and when upon mentioning racial equality he shocks the white men only to immediately take back his words, finishing his speech and receiving a scholarship to a college from the men. This shows the limits of assimilation for no matter how hard the narrator tries to appear equal and educated to the white men he is continually shown his status as lower in society, always being at the hands of white men.
7. The road symbolizes how even though the college appears to be educating and raising the black community to a higher level of equality than before that as one dives deeper and continues on the road that they soon find the evils hidden within the college and in reality how the college does not truly help black people gain equality but instill a higher level of systematic oppression upon …show more content…
Trueblood throughout his tale of incest maintains a pure and innocent tone for in his mind he truly did not seem to understand and comprehend what he was doing in his dreamlike until he woke up to raping his own daughter.
12. The white community continually helps Trueblood even after learning he committed incest because to white people Trueblood was acting as a stereotypical black man, thus the white community assumed he did not know any better and was just acting as what they believed was the norm to the people viewed as racially below them. Whereas the black community shuns Trueblood because they know what he did was wrong and only fuels the fire to the racial division between black and white people.
13. Mr. Norton gives Trueblood $100 because he feels he must reward Trueblood for entertaining him with his story, likewise if Mr. Norton did have hidden sexual desires for his own daughter Mr. Norton is paying Trueblood for being able to vicariously carry out his hidden dream through the man’s
2. Throughout his encounter with the Blonde man the black man thought he had already know that he was black, which is why he lashed out at the blonde man due to assuming the incident was instigated by ethnicity; however, the black man later understands that the blonde man never realized he was black thus finding the situation ironic, for how could a white man be attacked by someone “invisible”.
3. “Sleeping …show more content…
Even though the narrator seems to think he is becoming equal to the white men by being able to give his speech in front of them he soon releases that he must partake in the human equivalent of a dog fight, against other black men. Over the course of the fight the narrator faces racist remarks and continually dehumanization, such as the electric rug. Finally after the fight the narrator is allowed to give his speech in a now battered form, and when upon mentioning racial equality he shocks the white men only to immediately take back his words, finishing his speech and receiving a scholarship to a college from the men. This shows the limits of assimilation for no matter how hard the narrator tries to appear equal and educated to the white men he is continually shown his status as lower in society, always being at the hands of white men.
7. The road symbolizes how even though the college appears to be educating and raising the black community to a higher level of equality than before that as one dives deeper and continues on the road that they soon find the evils hidden within the college and in reality how the college does not truly help black people gain equality but instill a higher level of systematic oppression upon …show more content…
Trueblood throughout his tale of incest maintains a pure and innocent tone for in his mind he truly did not seem to understand and comprehend what he was doing in his dreamlike until he woke up to raping his own daughter.
12. The white community continually helps Trueblood even after learning he committed incest because to white people Trueblood was acting as a stereotypical black man, thus the white community assumed he did not know any better and was just acting as what they believed was the norm to the people viewed as racially below them. Whereas the black community shuns Trueblood because they know what he did was wrong and only fuels the fire to the racial division between black and white people.
13. Mr. Norton gives Trueblood $100 because he feels he must reward Trueblood for entertaining him with his story, likewise if Mr. Norton did have hidden sexual desires for his own daughter Mr. Norton is paying Trueblood for being able to vicariously carry out his hidden dream through the man’s