Questions and Thoughts About Many Pages of Reading Invisible Man!

Questions and Thoughts About Many Pages of Reading Invisible Man!

 

            Where we left off there was an explosion in the paint factory. So where we start the narrator wakes up in a machine that looks like the machines that cancer patients are sent through. Any way the narrator is in extreme pain. He’s strapped down. He’s clearly sick. In response what do the doctors do? They electrocute him repeatedly and ignore him. They treat him like a lab rat with no regard to his feelings. At first I thought they put some kind of mind control piece in his brain but as the book went on I doubted it… So he is in this situation and they only let him free when he can’t answer any of their questions. For a while he did not know who he was or even who his mother was. This is the point where they chose to free him. STRANGE DON’T YOU THINK? Let us not forget that they used the narrator as an experiment for some new treatment that was really bazaar.

            Okay. So he’s out. What is he thinking leaving anyway? He can barely walk. He’s talking nonsense but yet he leaves. WEIRD! So he goes on the subway and randomly starts walking through
Harlem. I think he was trying to go back to the Men’s House. Some how he wakes up on the ground and an elderly woman comes to his aid. She takes him into her house and lets him rest then feeds him before he leaves. She gives him an invitation to come back.

            He goes to the Men’s House and hallucinates that he sees Bledsoe and “Baptizes the Rev.” He gets band from the house and has to go back to Mary the old woman.

            She lets him stay with her. Then time passes and he does a whole lot of nothing. Finally we come to the part where he makes a speech and moves a mob into action.

            Brother Jack finds him and reels him in for the cause of a common equal world for all races.{Or is it? No one ever actually says what the mission is of the Brotherhood. They just talk a whole lot of fluff while explaining it.}

            He gets a chance to speak at a rally and wins the crowd but does not impress the brothers. He’s sent to get trained with Brother Hambro for four months and then is appointed head of the Harlem District. {Sketchy. They don’t like his approach or speeches but they start him in a leading position. Not to mention he’s black. I sensed this might be a set up from the beginning.} All goes well for a while but then he gets accused of working for his self interest after falling into a trap that another Brother made. He gets sent away on another assignment as the Brothers investigate. He then goes with a white woman to her home to discuss the ideologies of the brother hood. {Is he stupid? Red flag. HELLO.} After his district fails the brotherhood calls him back to
Harlem.
Clifton a close brother goes missing. All the other members of the Harlem District left or fell out.
Clifton turns out to be selling dolls after going under the radar and then gets arrested.

            This narrator disturbs me considering he still tries to justify the brotherhoods work. Something is clearly not right and he goes back and throws himself into the lions den. HE IS NOT TOO BRIGHT! Why doesn’t he ever just go home? If he did then none of these things would have happened. There are other colleges that he could go to and it wont be the end of the world if he gets a job and is a normal human being. No! He will drive himself to madness with a room full of light bulbs. LOONY? I think so.  

Invisible Man Theory

In class we talked about the paint scene in invisible man. I have my own out landish theory. When I was in one of my other classes we had a conversation about stupid racists. My Professor told our class that historically it has been proven that the origins of civilization are traced back to
Africa. So people who are racists hate black people when we all in a sense are black. That’s how I look at this.

            The paint starts out as a dark tint. This is the start of our civilization. Then the paint changes to a different color. People spread out all over the world. This occurred causing their skin tone changed and they became different tones and colors. So then people turned white from little droplets or hints of the African Culture.

            People forgot about
Africa for some time and white people became rich powerful and educated. Then they find out about blacks again. They forget that they came from blacks so they fear the blacks because they are so different. The white when the mixture is finished dominates so everyone think white is right and black is just a means for whites to achieve their highest success.

            I kind of believe in this theory. However I do not know how true the historical theory is. It brings a different perspective and it totally coincides with the book. One can see the sense in this if they think about it long enough. People, what do you think?   

Non Canonical and Canonical Paper

I think that this paper will be a good way for me to connect the non canonical and the canonical books. I think I am going to take Middleton’s suggestion and compare Dilsey to Clare or Irene. I think that it would be interesting to see how both compare to her but I don’t know which to choose.

            Dilsey was such an attentive, caring, soulful character. She was the care taker of the house. Dilsey tried to protect each of the children she raised that were white. She didn’t care how they acted she still defended them. What I found humorous though was that she did not treat him the same way. Dilsey was not shy to threaten her son at all when he upset Benjy. Dilsey also took care of the up keep of the house.

            Irene was a home maker. She took care of her house. She raised her boys and tried to protect them from the cruelness of the world. She had more luxury time and acclaim to her society. She was a hypocrite also. Irene looked down on Clare for Passing but then

Irene
Passes when she is alone in public so she could drink tea in nice restaurants and shop in the high style stores.

            Clare is the opposite of both Dilsey and Irene. Clare had a love hate relationship with her ethnicity. She kept switching roles from a black woman to white and then the reverse. She was a modern day example of the grass is always greener on the other side. It’s quite sad. Clare was also all about the materials and wealth. It was really a shame.

            Maybe I’ll do a paper comparing the three. It would fill the pages more.   

Passing and Wikki Project

The Passing was a great book in my opinion. I think this was the first book that we have read that I really like. The passing is basically about an African American woman whose friend is passing as a white woman. Irene is the main character. Clare is her friend.

            The book takes us through how they interact with one another. Irene tolerates Clare even though she doesn’t really like her. The book has two major twists which are great.

            Our group has been working on the wikki project. The Passing is about 115-120 pages.  There are five of us in the group. I think that the project is easy. We divided our work up so we did almost all of it at home. There weren’t enough pages that were strictly dedicated to the book and not Nella Larsen.

            Over all I think that I am the only one in my book that liked the ending to the book also. {For more description, go to the Passing wikki page.} I thought it was hysterical that Encounter three had a good twenty seven pages without action then BAAM at the end you’re hit with the greatest ending.

            I am tired of predictable endings and it was great that this books ending was unexpected.

            If we get the chance I’d love to do another project like this. The only thing is I don’t think we need as many class periods as we were given. Personally I think the wikki we made is awesome. Go Check It Out.