Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Invisible Man
The main theme of the story "Invisible Man" was the black man struggling to find his identity, he realized he was in fact living in a white racist society. He wanted to become invisible to the world to ignore stereotypes. They were treated horribly, the whites made the boys to look at the white woman and threatened them if they didn't, they also made tricked the boys to fall into their trap- an electric rug filled with money. The story is filled with lots of stereotypes and racism is seen throughout. It was hard to read not because of the difficulty of the reading, but because of the disturbing, depressing scenes that happened in the story.
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I agree that this story is filled with stereotypes and racism, but that time people were filled with all sorts of misconceptions about African Americans. They weren’t informed very well about what kind of people blacks were so they chose to believe what was being heard or said by fellow people. Instead of fighting these misconceptions African Americans chose to ignore it (a lot of them could not fight anyway from fear of death). Aside from this point, I also thought about this while reading the story. Maybe, in a way it is good to be ignored by people because if a person was ALWAYS the talk of the town they would start to believe everything they heard and that could have its benefits and detriments. However, if you kept ignoring every rumor that was that was said then people will start to believe that rumor about you whether it be true or not. In conclusion, there are some times where you should defend yourself from rumors and there are times where it’s not even worth it.
ReplyDelete-Lisa Stanton
I disagree that he actually wanted to be invisible. I believe that he feels he worked really hard to become a "productive member of society" and realized that he wasn't getting any recognition for being responsible so why bother being responsible. If nobody sees him, and he's invisible, than why worry about it. He has no control over how the "sleepwalkers" see the world. I actually can't wait to read the rest of the novel. I want to see the change occur in his attitude towards his surrounding/life. Was it the end of chapter one that changes him? One thing I do think that remains constant though is him not knowing how he should act. What he does on the outside changes because he's trying to figure out the right way to act, the only way to figure it out is trial and error.
ReplyDelete-Alyson Vann