Color Blindness In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

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My novel of choice i have read to go along with the creative project was Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. As part of my creative project i chose the manila folder art to create a descriptive visual how my novel translated into my theme which is color blindness towards a specific race. While reading the Invisible Man race engaged an important role into how i was going to incorporate color blindness to my projects that i have chosen. The narrator in my novel experienced various racial discrepancies throughout the book. And how my project relates to that was when he used numerous symbols and metaphors to relate how color blindness when he was growing up was a very critical …show more content…

Impart to when the narrator arrived in Harlem, New York, he received a job as a painter and when he had to put a specific chemical called liquid dry into the paint cans, he ended up adding the wrong liquid inside. As he ends up ruining 75+ buckets of paint with the wrong which is a metaphor of the north perpetuating its own structure of race and the paint plant serves as a metaphor of racial inequality. Also the narrator reads a billboard quoting, “keep America pure with liberty paint”, this empathizes the concept of whiteness and the purity within the company of the whiteman controls. Ellison injects irony mixing white and black explains how the white man/ people control everything and how the black man or other various races have been under them since the beginning of time. But Ellison gives the narrator a figurative rebirth period relating to imagery as the narrator was “newborn” into the world while in the hospital. As the descriptive details of the narrator's life displays color blindness within America we also have to fight against racial discrimination that we face today that also relates to my novel was trying to explain as our black people or other races need to come together and rise as