If This Is a Man

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the main character takes the reader through his violent past to explain how he got to the place he is in life and why he is an invisible man. The invisible man introduces himself and then almost immediately begins to describe a very violent scene. After this, he paints his colorful, bloody past-as he knew life before he was the invisible man. This environment into which the invisible man was thrown is a life of chaos and confusion, and the man eventually decides to…

Seventy years ago a man was found dead on Somerton beach. Seventy years and we still do not know who that man was. The mystery of the unknown man has baffled generations for years. On December 1, 1948 the unknown man was found dead on Somerton Beach slumped against the sea wall. The man’s identity is still unknown today, he is referred to as The Somerton man. This is such an interesting mystery because even today we haven’t been able to put all the pieces together on this case although today we…

December of 2010, Conrad Zdzierk, a white polish man, used “hyper realistic” mask to disguise himself as a black man as he robbed several banks in Ohio. While the mask is realistic looking, the fact that he used this mask as a way to evade the police and cause another man to be arrested in his place is a horrible reality. I was unable to find a picture of the wrongly accused man to compare to the mask, but the fact that a mask caused an innocent man to be arrested is baffling. Regardless of how…

The narrator who is the husband in the story is visited by his wife’s blind friend. Originally the blind man has come to see the woman his friend who he hasn’t seen in years, however in this story the narrator is the one who benefits most from the presence of the blind man. Although the narrator is her husband the blind man seems to know more about the woman than him, the wife and the blind man have been communicating by sending tapes with recorded messages and poems to each other through mail…

Psychological Ideas About the Potential of Man Colin Wilson is an english writer as well a philosopher, critic, and novelist. Wilson has written countless works on his understanding of humans and their behavior. In all of his works, Wilson goes on to explain his thoughts on how and why humans act the ways they do. In one of his works his suggests, “The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” This quote can be…

Being a Man Is it muscles and strength, is it bearing facial hair, is it the clothes you wear or how you look, is it measured by success, is it the amount money they have, is it based on the power or title they hold, or is it something else? What makes a man? What does it mean to be a man? There are many definitions of what a man is in today’s society. For some it is wealth, for others it maybe being hairy muscular, and some see having a family makes you a man, but do all these really make a…

King of the Bingo Game is a story about a man trying to win a bingo game for his a girl he loves named Laura. This story plays out as a major conflict between the bingo game and the man. In the beginning of the story, it’s the past that leads up to the actual bingo game. The story provides facts as to how the man grew up, what is expected of him due to his situation and how these expectations will be played out. From the beginning of the story, this man enters a theater hungry. The smell of…

determined to become a man in the eyes of his father. A man to Stephen is someone who possesses characteristics similar to his father, such as being thick-skinned and hard-nosed. But Stephen is influenced by Leka’s past and eventually realizes there are more qualities that define a man. As the story progresses, Stephen deeply changes his perception on what masculinity traits are, due to the influences from the working men, his father and Leka’s past. Stephen’s perspective of what makes a man is…

Man has a wisdom that leads him away from God in his revolution against God. Paul gives us insight into this in Romans 1:23-32. Man can persuade himself that his selfish way and his false religion are right, but this is not God’s way and it will lead to man’s own destruction. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12). Human foolishness appears through efforts to stand alone without God, or against God. Man develops warped…

his son and this relationship is also examined and amplified by the man and the boy in The Road by Cormac McCarthy. While analyzing the novel, a contrast is created between love and danger as seen through the caring father-son relationship and the strain that is put on each character to prove that love conquers hardships faced during stressful situations. The man and the boy have an obviously close and loving relationship. The…