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THE INVISIBLE MAN

THE INVISIBLE MAN. BY RALPH ELLISON. Symbols: Jack. Communism in America Blindness: glass eye Sees with only one eye Other eye destroyed by Brotherhood Blind to individuals Does not see the IM Blind to own tendency to manipulate. BLINDNESS. Blindfolds in Battle Royal

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THE INVISIBLE MAN

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  1. THE INVISIBLE MAN BY RALPH ELLISON

  2. Symbols: Jack • Communism in America • Blindness: glass eye • Sees with only one eye • Other eye destroyed by Brotherhood • Blind to individuals • Does not see the IM • Blind to own tendency to manipulate

  3. BLINDNESS • Blindfolds in Battle Royal • Founder’s blindness • “Black and blue”: Louis Armstrong: “What did I do to be so black and blue” • Rinehard

  4. BLACK AND WHITE • Illuminated the blackness of his invisibility • Light bulbs (1369) • Paradox: knowledge (light) needed to accept his blackness • Blacks needed to hold up white society • Optic White paint: Brockway • White cops, black horses • White society on backs of black slaves

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