English 174: Invisible Man

WHOA! I am really enjoying this book. I have only gotten to chapter six so far but I am liking it a lot. I decided that I should just jump ahead to this novel if we were going to be spending more time talking about it. I am really glad I did too. I mean, the book is great although it has taken be a bit of time to get through these first chapters. Ellison's writing is just so easy to read and he paints a picture for the reader that is amazing. I think it is so interesting how he feels invisible. The way he describes his (the main character's) life makes everything seem so unreal in a setting and time when feelings like that were so real. That probably makes no sense... What I mean is that the main character talks of himself as being invisible to the world--> as if he truly is invisible and no one can see him. That isn't the case though, it isn't that the world can't see him but the fact that the world chooses not to see him. Yeah? It is so true though. People, in my opinion, only see what they want to see. Right after slavery, many whites still thought of African-Americans as nothing, for sure not humans with equal rights. That is exactly what Ellison captures, that emotion of being looked past because people did not want to see. Like I said, I am really enjoying this book and am actually really excited to see where this ends as well as where our class conversations go!