The narrator struggles whether this is a marker of individual identity
Race
100
Represents how people willing avoid confronting the truth. their prejudices doesn't allow them to see.
Blindness
100
The leader of The Brotherhood who has an abstract ideology and is just as racist as other whites.
Brother Jack
100
Who wrote Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
100
What happens when Leo is going to give his speech to the white men in his town?
The white men force Leo to enter a battle royal with other black men and fight blindfolded and try to catch a fake gold coin on an electric rug.
200
The narrator experiences this through the hands of others from the battle royal to his role in The Brotherhood
Fighting stereotype with stereotype
200
A sign of expected fluidity of identity
The dark lensed glasses
200
The seller of the Sambo dolls and ex member of The Brotherhood who seemingly both perpetrating and mocking the stereotype of black people.
Todd Clifton
200
What is the genre?
Bildungsroman
200
What is the story of Jim Trueblood?
He a black man shunned by the towns black community for impregnating his daughter
300
The idea the narrator is not seen by his oppressors
Invisibility
300
Play on stereotypes of black sensuality, and the servility of black entertainers for white masters
Sambo doll
300
Represents the black nationalist movement, he advocated violent overthrow of white supremacy.
Ras the Exhorter
300
What time is the setting?
The 1930's
300
Where does the narrator go after being expelled by Dr. Bledsoe?
Harlem
400
Expressed by the narrators town's white men who are bent on maintaining a version of themselves in public eye, but hold racist and sexist views. Also The Brotherhood
Power and self interest
400
Represents an exaggerated black figure that is excited to eat the cons that a white man gives him
The coin bank
400
A black man who puts on a mask of servility to the white community. He is driven by the desire to maintain his status among the white society.
Dr. Bledsoe
400
What is the main conflict?
The narrator is unable to reconcile his socially imposed role with his inner identity of form his own inner identity.
400
How does the narrator entice the crowds for The Brotherhood?
His speeches
500
The novels structure as a series of hopes and dashed expectations. Such as the promise of the university and the realization of what The Brotherhood really is.
Ambition and disillusionment
500
Leo's literal baggage, and sign of changeability of the narrators identity.
The brief case
500
Tries to expose the pitfalls of the school's ideology. He exposes the blindness and hypocrisy and points out the sinister relationship of Mr. Norton and the narrator.
The veteran
500
The narrators scholarship given to him by wealthy white men foreshadows what?
The damaging influence on the narrator of his future college's lessons in ideology.
500
How does the narrator end up underground?
After being chased by Ras, he encounters two policemen and falls into a man hole. The policemen pull the cover of the man hole to trap him.