Invisible Man Analysis

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ANALYSIS- Invisible man PLOT OVERVIEW He started his story sometime around 1920s. As a great speaker he was chosen to make a speech before white audience, but it was rather an inhuman racialist amusement for the rich. In spite of that he received a scholarship for a prestigious black college. He is doing well on his studies, until the day when he is doing a driver for a colleges trustee Mr.Norton. Unintentionally he took him to a slum where the trustee speaks with a black man who committed incest. After the story Mr.Norton collapsed and needs a drink, so the narrator took him to the nearest place a very dirty saloon and brothel for black customers. As they came back, our protagonist was fired from the college, because of showing the places which are no good for white rich man, but he got a promise that he can come back after earning the money for next year. The story is moving from the south to New York, where our narrator wants to find a job, get some money for college and go back. Soon he found out that recommendation letters addressed to college`s trustees from college president, Dr. Bledsoe, were no help. Son of one of the trustees revealed him the truth about the letters and helped him with getting the job in Liberty Paints plant. As the protagonist was arguing with his co-worker one of the tanks explode and he woke up in the factory hospital. As his memory recovered he was released from the hospital, but he almost fainted in the metro. Luckily for him, Mary, an old black lady, let him stay in her house and took care of him. After he moved in her house and lived there feeling that he found his new home. As he lived up all his money, she let him stay for free giving him the hope, that he will be successful in finding a job soon. He was walking without purpose feeling sad and lost as he witnessed an eviction of an old black couple. This causes an eruption
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