ENG 304: Melville & Ellison

Our narrator, T.I.M, has been slowly getting worn down by his experiences in life. In the prologue, we are allowed to glimpse into his head and see what he is…

The bulk of our introduction to Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is experienced in Chapter one of the novel in which our protagonist himself is thrust into a strange and uncomfortable…

It is fairly clear that the Emerson’s son, tasked with interviewing the Invisible Man after being presented with the letter from Bledsoe, feels a type of connection with and sympathy…

In what we have read so far of Invisible Man, Ellison discusses the perceived power dynamic between blacks and whites. The Invisible Man at first feels when he is driving…

The first few chapter of Invisible Man have been eye opening and a totally different experience from reading Moby-Dick. The strange surrealist nature of the plot is a confusing reading…

From the beginning of book there is a significant amount of foreshadowing to the fate of the Pequod. What we are hearing is Ishmael’s account of the story so we…

I am writing my essay about the 1956 film of the novel, Moby-Dick; and what I came to notice was how important of a character the film portrayed Starbuck to…

The conclusion of Moby Dick ended up being a whirlwind in which I left more confused than when I started. As Moby Dick is such an integral part of cultural…

“I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle…

Last week in class we discussed the chapter in which Stubb ate whale for dinner. When I first read this, I too thought that it was a bit much for…