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Rhetorical Analysis Of Tod Clifton's Speech In Invisible Man

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In the novel "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, one of his most memorable speeches is his eulogy for Tod Clifton. He breaks away from the Brotherhood by acting on his own to have a funeral for Clifton and give a eulogy. In his speech, he speaks about Clifton’s identity. He acknowledges the truth of every black man's reality: black men are constantly overlooked by white men in this white man's world. The sad reality of Clifton’s death is that it was at the hands of a white society. The author uses rhetorical strategies of tone, irony, and repetition to emphasize that the killings of black Americans are so normalized that people have become desensitized to them, his death being one of them. The tone throughout the entire speech is full of anger
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