The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man was a very interesting selection; I believe that the narrator was searching for who he really was in society to that belonged to a white America. The events and experiences that made up the narrators mind were all journey that I followed with him and hoped at the end he would figure out who he really was.
It seems that from the beginning of the selection the Invisible Man was being told how he should live his life. He seems to be very innocent and does not realize what is actually going on around him. Although it is clear that he is being made a complete fool of, he acts as if he can just make it through this situation, the men will still take him serious and view him as a real person. The Invisible Man is used, humiliated, and discriminated against but this still does not get him down. The narrator believes in himself and that what he has to say is important and hopefully it would be taken serious by the gentleman he was entertaining. In all actuality, the Invisible Man was just another black boy, and not taken seriously at all.
Nobody seemed to care what he did, as long as he did what he was told to do. The narrator only wanted to read his speech, but ended up being entertainment for a group of successful white men from the community. No matter what he was told to do, he would make it through as long as he could present his speech. I believe that the abuse the Invisible Man received at the battle royal gave him the first insight that everything is not always what it seems, but it still did not change his perception of himself.
The Invisible man remained humble throughout his experiences and seems to only see the good in all of this. He will get to deliver his speech and everything will be better after that. He does what he is told but yet nothing is going like he expected it to. The narrator is invisible because people see in him only what they want to see, not what he really is. He cannot be seen by society because he chooses to remain apart. The Invisible Man seems to be innocent in all of this. He does not believe that people are bad. He does not see that Bledsoe is making a complete fool of him. But throughout his experience he begins to see that there is more to the world than he ever realized.
In conclusion I believe that the Invisible man learned a lot from his ordeal at the battle royal. No matter how educated of obedient he was people still only viewed him the way that they wanted to see him. No matter how much he tried to submit to the men he was constantly told what to do and how to behave. If he wanted to make it in the world he was going to have to find out who he was inside, before he can go around trying to please everyone else.
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