Our narrator is physically mortified in the "Battle Royal" chapter and promptly starts a mortifying discourse on the force of lowliness - mortification and fear play their part, and experience unusual changes all through, as confirm by Bledsoe's strategic maneuvers, and by our storyteller's administration and control of different groups to which he is bound. In the story there are some blind and half-blind figures. The leader of of the brotherhood, a.k.a Brother Jack had a glass eye, in chapter 16 he referred black people as one eyed mice in his speech. The fact that african americans are portrayed to start life with an eye, for being dark-skinned, they would lose the other eye in fighting one another by white people controlling them. Next in chapter one, the white people blindfold the black men in the battle royal to make them strike out blindly at each other. The men kept yelling, "Slug him, black boy! Knock his guts out!" "Uppercut him! Kill him! Kill that big boy!” (Ellison, pg19). Imagery is depicted about sight and blindness in the story. Being able to see …show more content…
The welcomed preacher in Chapter 5 is wearing “black lensed glasses," which later on uncover, quickly, "the blinking of sightless eyes." The reverend is visually impaired. At the point when the narrator is excluded, he sees "the play of light upon the metallic plate of [Bledsoe's] glasses." There are a couple of more echoes, yet none so noteworthy as the one in Chapter 22, where the Invisible Man goes up against the panel and notification that its pioneer's "left eye had broke down, a line of crude redness indicating where the top declined to close." Glass eyes. Shades. These pictures play off one another, subsequently the exceptionally unusual, dreamlike note struck by the storyteller's shades close to the end - the ones he uses to camouflage himself and in this manner maintain a strategic distance from being