Key Characters
What man kicks TIM out of his college?
Who is Bledsoe?
What is Tod Clifton doing on the street after he leaves the brotherhood that upsets TIM?
What is selling Sambo dolls?
Following this scene, a young TIM gives his first speech to a crowd of white people. Despite not being taken seriously, he is rewarded with a scholarship to an all black college.
What is The Battle Royale? ( This is TIM's first attempt at standing up to prejudice as the first scene of the book)
Who is the character who was revealed to have a glass eye?
Who is brother Jack? (Jack's glass eye symbolizes his blindness resulting from the manipulative nature of the Brotherhood)
What is used as a symbol that represents the baggage that he carries around from his past?
What is Briefcase?
This organization initially seems like the perfect fit for TIM. However, after working with them, TIM realizes their true colors and plots to take them down.
What is The Brotherhood? ( At first TIM is hopeful to be working with the brotherhood. As he climbs up the ranks, he realizes that they don't intend to truly aid black society)
Which famous figure's belief system does T.I.M. base his first speech after?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The job TIM had in NYC that represents the hierarchical societal structure that exists in America. His assignment was to mix dark colors with the whites to create an even whiter white.
What is Liberty Paints Plant? ( TIM's job at the paint factory is his first real job in NYC. Here he learns how the american hierarchy uses prejudice against black people to reinforce the power that white people hold)
What did the revealing of the statue represent with the veil both opposing sides lifting the Veil or lowering it.
What is The vail? The vail reveals (education) and hierarchy (lowering)
TIM is a character who combats the societal hierarchy by submitting to its presence. This character takes the opposite approach, choosing violence to convey his displeasure.
Who is Ras the Exhorter? ( Instead of yessing white society to death, Ras wants to get revenge through physical action, shown through the riot at the end of the novel)
This food item that TIM ate before the eviction scene, causes TIM to reflect on the past and how it changed how he got into the current situation in New York.
What are Yams?
The man who TIM is mistaken for numerous times on the streets, and whose many identities help TIM to question his own identity and invisibility.
Rinehart (he's a preacher who preaches on invisibility, but also a gambler and briber. When TIM is mistaken for him, TIM realizes his own invisibility and its limitations and advantages.)
What is the advice that the Invisible Man's grandfather gave him?
To live with your head in the lion's mouth. To overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.