Ellison, The Invisible Man

"I've closed my eyes and walked...on down past the small white Home Economics practice cottage, whiter still in the moonlight, and on down the road with its sloping and turning paralleling the black powerhouse..."

Ellison, page 34

As I read this passage in chapter two, I couldn't help but think that Ellison was revealing elements of race within the very architecture of the campus. As I read further...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherDufalla/2009/03/even_the_gray_is_blackand_whit.html

On page 94 the vet is talking to Mr. Norton:

"He has eyes and ears and a good distended African nose, but he fails to understand the simple facts of life. Understand.Understand? It's worse than that. He registers with his senses but short-circuits his brain. Nothing has meaning. He takes it in but he doesn't digest it. Already he is -- well, bless my soul! Behold! a walking zombie! Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He's invisible, a walking personifcation of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelsieBitner/2009/03/invisible.html

He even remembers "the heavy gold chain that hung between Dr. Bledsoe's vest pockets and the air with which he snapped his watch open to consult the time" (Ellison 160) fondly after he has been expelled.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlyssaSanow/2009/03/social_conditioning.html

"Or could it be, I was almost afraid to think, that this rich man was just the tiniest bit crazy? How could I tell him his fate>? He raised his head and our eyes met for an instant in the glass, then I lowered mine to the blazing white line that divided the highway."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MatthewHenderson/2009/03/ralph_ellison_needs_some_crayo.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AjaHannah/2009/03/racism_at_its_best.html

Keep America Pure With Liberty Paints

"I watched her reach into the bosom of her taffeta hostess gown and remove a white envelope.
'This is your new identity,' Brother Jack said. 'Open it.'
Inside I found a name written on a slip of paper."
~page 309

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/03/whats_in_a_name.html

Okay, so my blog entry is on the whole exert from when the narrator had smoked a reefer cigarette in the prologue.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RobertZanni/2009/03/in_the_thought_of_things.html

"Around me the students move with faces frozen in solemn masks, and I seem to hear already voices mechanically raised in songs the visitors loved. (Loved? Demanded. Sung? Al ultimatum accepted and ritualized an allegiance recited for the peace it imparted, and for that perhaps loved. Loved as the defeated come to love the symbols of their conquerors. A gesture of acceptance, of terms laid down and reluctantly approved.)"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/NikitaMcClellan/2009/03/cleansing.html

"And why does no rain fall through my recollections, sound through my memories, soak through the hard dry crust of the still so recent past?" Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Page 36.

"I was the irresponsible one; for I should have used my knife to protect the higher interests of society. Some day that kind of foolishness will cause us some tragic trouble."
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AliciaCampbell/2009/03/this_concept_has_staying_power.html

"I spoke automatically and with such fervor that I did not realize that the men were still talking and laughing until my dry mouth, filling up with blood from the cut, almost strangled me. I coughed, wanting to stop and go to one of the tall brass, sand-filled spittoons to relieve myself..." (30)

The most horrific thing I've read that didn't happen in war.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AndrewAdams/2009/03/intense_in_the_worst_way_possi.html

"Blindfolded, I could no longer control my motions. I had no dignity. I stumbled about like a baby or a drunken man. The smoke had become thicker and with each new blow it seemed to sear and further restrict my lungs. My saliva became like hot bitter glue. A glove connected with my head, filling my mouth with warm blood. It was everywhere. I could not tell if the moisture I felt upon my body was sweat or blood" (22).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianneBanda/2009/03/attention_grabber.html

What is up with the Bloods?
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilMinerd/2009/03/what_is_up_with_the_bloods.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/03/invisible.html

"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." (Ellison 3).

"The next day i saw his picture in the Daily News, beneath a caption stating that he had been "mugged".Poor fool, poor blind fool, I thought with sincere compassion, mugged by an invisible man!"
-Invisible Man p. 8
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RosalindBlair/2009/03/an_invisible_meaning.html

"All dreamers and sleepwalkers must pay the price and even the invisible victim is responsible for the fate of all." (14) We are all responsible in the end, whether we want to believe we are visible or invisible and will either act or react to the situations in life.

It's the title, GET IT RIGHT!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CarlosPeredo/2009/03/play_onnames.html

1,369?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RebeccaMarrie/2009/03/1369.html

"I havent smoked a reefer since, however; not becasue they're illegal, but because to see around corners is enough (that is not unusual when you are invisible)" (Ellison 13)

This blog shares some of my feeling about the narrator.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JoshuaWilks/2009/03/smoking_reefer_cigarettes.html

...it might help if i post the link...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessicaBitar/2009/03/invisible_man_chapters_1-14.html