ENG 304: Melville & Ellison

When I enrolled in the class, I was very interested in learning about two classic American authors that I had relatively little prior knowledge about.  I am a huge fan…

When I first began this class, I was quite unsure of how Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison were going to work in one class. Only knowing Melville as the guy…

Now that we’ve all finished reading the Invisible Man, I think there are some lessons that we can all take away. One of the most important things that I’ve learned…

Something that I found interesting was that in chapter 24, a flock of birds flies over the narrator and he gets pooped on as he his headed to the riot…

The Invisible Man is called in to the Brotherhood’s committee meeting after delivering a speech at Clifton’s funeral.  The Brotherhood thought that he had stepped beyond his jurisdiction, acting too much as…

Chapter 17 was a really interesting chapter to me. Ras the exhorter’s speaking to Clifton was something that stuck with me. He was trying to rile him up with his…

During the fight between the Brotherhood and the Nationalist group, Ras brings up that black men should not be fighting because they are on the same side. Ras opposes that…

In Chapter 9 we found out that Bledsoe has told each of the addressees that the narrator has earned permanent expulsion from the college and that he had to send…

The Invisible Man’s speech in chapter 13 stood out to me because I think this was a critical point in the novel in which the Invisible Man finally finds his…

In our last reading of Invisible Man, I felt like I was reading a recent story and not something written in 1952. Everything from the illegally selling something on the street…