Show:
Setting
Characters
Conflicts
Quotes
Symbolism
100
"Narrator remember's spotting a statue while attending school" (Statue: Founder of the school)
What is the narrators college?
100
A power hungry President of the narrator's college who unfairly expelled the narrator.
Who is Mr. Bledsoe?
100
"Boss and narrator are having a argument about the narrator's mistakes."
What is the narrator?
100
"If you're white, you're right"
What is racism?
100
"Keep America Pure with Liberty Paints"
What is the slogan of Liberty Paints?
200
Where Mr. Bledsoe and Mr. Norton meet.
What is Mr. Norton dorm?
200
The nameless protagonist of the novel...
Who is the narrator?
200
he realizes, is in fact invisible to those around him.
What is his true identity?
200
“Our white is so white you can paint a chunka coal and you’d have to crack it open with a sledge hammer to prove it wasn’t white clear through.”
Who is Lucius Brockway?
200
The coin bank in the shape of the grinning black man.
What is racism symbols?
300
"Narrator arrives at the Plant"
What is the narrator's new job?
300
An uneducated black man who impregnated his own daughter.
Who is Jim Trueblood?
300
Invisible Man is a novel aimed at race and all the other ways humanity has used to categorize people.
What is racism?
300
“pink-faced”
What is the doctors face?
300
Tod Clifton’s dancing Sambo doll
What is racism symbols?
400
"awakens to a doctors face with a third bright eye in the middle of his forehead"
What is the hospital?
400
One of the wealthy white trustees at the narrator’s college
Who is Mr. Norton?
400
He is expelled and banished to Harlem where the world turns on him.
What is racism?
400
"They're my birthmark," I said. "I yam what I am!"
What is the narrators first show of identity?
400
Ellison uses color to convey the novel's themes and motifs throughout the book
What is color coding?
500
New York in the late 1930s
What is Harlem?
500
The white and blindly loyal leader of the Brotherhood, a political organization that professes to defend the rights of the socially oppressed.
Who is Brother Jack?
500
The narrator doesn't have a job as soon as he got to Harlem.
What is a job problem?
500
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
What is people not choosing to see him?
500
White generally symbolizes goodness and purity, while black symbolizes evil and corruption.
What is color racism?