Typical Association
In this stage of the hero's journey, THE HERO HAS NOT YET REALIZED THE FLAWS OF HIS TRADITIONAL LIFE, seen as The college/The south for the IM.
What is the ordinary world?
At what stage was the Hero at in the story when he runs into Mr. Norton again and he doesn’t’ recognize him.
What is the refusal to return?
This quote represents what part of the hero's journey :
"It was a beautiful college. The buildings were old and covered with vines and the roads gracefully winding, lined with hedges and wild roses that dazzled the eyes in the summer sun."
What is the ordinary world?
This is the phase about discovering and relearning. The narrator realizes that everything that how thought he knew about how he should behave like a black man in the South was just a way of keeping him back.
What is phase one or call to adventure, refusal, or supernatural aid?
This supports the idea that "one is invisible when they go unnoticed by society."
What is IM moving underground?
This Character acts as a distracter from the main character goals.
What is the Temptress and or Sybil?
At what stage was the Hero at in the story after Broadway begins to believe the IM has a prejudice against the Union and they go at it in the factory.
What is Belly of the Whale?
Name the archetype this quote represents :
“No, I couldn't return to Mary's, or to the campus, or to the Brotherhood, or home. I could only move ahead or stay here, underground”
What is the rebel?
Here the IM is seen finding acceptance. The narrator begins to step into the shoe of the “Rebel.”
What is phase three?
What character is best supported by this idea "No one is truly who they present, everyone has their own personal agenda and one must remember that when making its way up."
Ex. What is Brother Jack?
What typical association or archetype do Bledsoe, Mr. Norton, and Brother Jack fall under?
What is "The Ruler" or a character who seeks control?
Where in the novel do we see the IM "Meeting the Goddess?"
What is when the IM meets the Brotherhood?
This is represented by this quote:
“For if I selected one who believed that I had requested to be transferred because I hated my own people it would only complicate matters. No doubt there would be some who'd resent my return…
What is the atonement
This is how "the ruler" archetype is translated in the novel?
What are these characters allow the I'm to align with certain ideologies that alter his journey.
This makes society "blind" to the IM.
EX. What everyone's different perspective(racial prejudice inside and out the black community) and therefore different issues.
Name the character who seeks to protect or care for the invisible man and how they do so.
Ex. What is Mary Rambo takes in the IM after he is thrown out of the factory?
At some point in the novel, the IM was told to work with the women’s movement when and he meets a lady named Sybil at a party who seduces him. This is the stage of temptation. This is an earlier moment when the IM was "tempted"?
Ex. What is when he was working at the factory?
This is represented by this quote in the IM's story:
“And now I realized that I couldn't return to Mary's, or to any part of my old life. I could approach it only from the outside, and I had been as invisible to Mary as I had been to the Brotherhood. No, I couldn't return to Mary's, or to the campus, or to the Brotherhood, or home. I could only move ahead or stay here, underground”
What is exile?
This is the role "Mary Rambo" plays in the IM's Journey.
What is She acts as a means of rebirth into accepting his culture?
What archetype does the narrator best portray based on this concept; "Only you can save your-self.."
What is the rebel and/or outcast?
At what stage in the IM's Journey does he achieve a balance between his own "material and spiritual world."
What is the return?
This stage occurs after Tod Clifton dies.
What is the ultimate boon?
This quote represents what archytype form the IM:
“I am an invisible man. … I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me, they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination -- indeed, everything and anything except me.”
Whta is the Hero?
What does Tod Clifton portray fro the novel?
What is another side of the IM?
This is triggered by the IM separating himself from the south.
What is a change in perspective?