The Invisible Man Narrator

The Invisible Man The narrator of the the book is a young African-American man who goes through many things in the story. The narrator of the book is not named once in the whole book. The book does not name the state his college was in. It keeps a lot of information shrouded from the reader. The book does this to help the reader believe that the narrator is actually an Invisible person. In the prologue the narrator tells how he deals with his invisibility. He begins to tell a story about how he was walking down the street and bumped into a White man. The man cussed at the narrator because he truly did not see him. The narrator proceeded to assault the man for cursing at him. He realized that the man had not truly see him when he was about slit his throat. The next part of the prologue is the Narrator explaining why he has over 1200 light bulbs in his

The narrator runs away and gets a disguise. He keeps getting mistaken for someone named Rinehart. A woman mistakes him as her pimp, a group of people mistake him as their reverend. He makes his way back to Brother Hambro house for new teaching and leaves angry. Riots start in Harlem because of Ras’ speeches of violence. The narrator tells the brothers to try to clean up Harlem and stop the violence. The narrator gets a call that a riot had broken out in Harlem and he starts to walk to it. When he gets there he learns that the Brotherhood had been working with Ras the whole time and was trying to start race riots. The narrator is chased by Ras, who is calling for his death, and his supporters. The narrator starts to run and falls into a manhole which they cover up. The narrator ponders over what his grandfather said to him. He burns the things in his briefcase to have light. He told a story while in the manhole about him seeing a old white man. It was Mr. Norton, and he didnt recognize the narrator. The Narrator realizes that he was invisible but not