Invisible Man, apart from the fact that it is a great book that one can re-read a million times and find new things, it touches a common theme for many African-American writer. Ralph Ellison, starts the novel off with the brute force that drives society.
To sum the story up in one sentence… It starts with the story-teller gives a great speech, which we never actually listen to (metaphor…), because of the speech he is invited to an upper-class white gathering, there is a forced brawl and a sexy lady. The Chapter’s most important scene is when the narrator gives his speech after the white men enjoy the blacks beating on each other. Funny enough the speech planned was about social justice. The crowd laughs until the narrator speaks of “social respect” and one crowed member jumps at him. As the narrator swallows his blood, his heritage one might say, he surrenders to the crowd member in shame.
Throughout the act it’s evident how the whites indirectly dominate the course of the blacks. The objective of the fight was for a collage tuition. What does this show? Well, it shows that the education of the blacks depends of the whites, it shows that collages are ran by whites and influenced by whites, it is true, but the hidden way that Ellison shows it is what interreges the reader.
These ideas are found through the novel.
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