The Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison

Free choice reading journal-purpose I picked the book the invisible man by Ralph Ellison because I wanted to learn a little more about back than and why this author really wanted to write this, was this because he was trying to show readers about going from being a person who is invisible to being seen by everybody or to get you to think about the overall meaning that the author is trying to show all readers. These are the things I thought about reading the title of this book and made me want to see what it’s really about and this is why I picked to read this book. Finally I chose this book because I wanted to choose something that was different from that we have been reading in class, I also wanted to show that I can analyze books or poems

Norton in the invisible man is important because he’s one of the wealthy trustees at the college. Mr. Norton is a man who is only concerned about himself and treats the narrator as a tally on his scorecard-- that is, as proof that he is liberal-minded and charitable. Norton tells the narrator that his fate is in the narrator's hands, just as it is in every one of the students' hands at that college. Norton shows the narrator a picture of his daughter, whom he thought was perfect and that he claims everything that he does was in honor of his daughter. In conclusion Mr. Norton praises the Founder, saying that he had benefited the black race but mocks when the narrator has compared him to god not as a

The narrator is someone who always thinks the best of people even when those people don’t deserve it and he remains consistently respectful of authority. The narrator’s innocence had sometimes caused him to misunderstand the important events that occurred throughout the story, he often made it necessary for the reader to look past the narrator’s own interpretation of the events that occurred in order to see what Ralph Ellison’s real intentions were an to see the irony to allow the reader to see things that the narrator misses during those times back then.

In conclusion there were some good influences and bad influences throughout this story. One person who influence the narrator in a good way is Mary Rambo because she showed him how to see people and himself as an individual not just by their skin color and to be able to do the right thing. Dr. Bledsoe is the bad influence that the narrator had during the beginning of the story because Dr. Bledsoe was a lying, power-hungry hypocrite, who would do anything to obtain what he wants and the narrator lots of respect and wanted to be like him until he started to realize those aspect of