Invisible man读后感
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Ralph Waldo Ellison
(March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer.He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical eays, and Going to the Territory (1986).In 1933, Ellison entered the Tuskegee Institute on a scholarship to study music.After his third year, Ellison moved to New York City to study the visual arts.He studied sculpture and photography.From 1937 to 1944 Ellison had over twenty book reviews as well as short stories and articles published in magazines such as New Challenge and New Maes.Published in 1952, Invisible Man explores the theme of man’s search for his identity and place in society, as seen from the perspective of an unnamed black man in the New York City of the 1930s.Through the protagonist, Ellison explores the contrasts between the
Northern and Southern varieties of racism and their alienating effect.The narrator is \"invisible\" in a figurative sense, in that \"people refuse to see\" him, and also
experiences a kind of diociation.The novel, with its treatment of taboo iues such as incest, won the National Book Award in 1953.In 1955, Ellison went abroad to Europe to travel and lecture before settling for a time in Rome, Italy, where he wrote an eay that appeared in a Bantam anthology called A New Southern Harvest in 1957.
Invisible Man (is a novel written by Ralph Ellison, and the only one that he
published during his lifetime (his other novels were published posthumously).It won him the National Book Award in 1953.The novel addrees many of the social and intellectual iues facing African-Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T.Washington, as well as iues of individuality and personal identity.)
The book\'s main theme is to never doubt the invisible.In the beginning, the main character lives in a small town in the South.He is a model student, even being named his high school\'s valedictorian.Having written and delivered an excellent paper about the struggles of the average black man,he gets a scholarship to an all-black college that is clearly modeled on the Tuskegee Institute.During his junior year at the college, the narrator takes Mr.Norton, a visiting rich white trustee, on a drive in the country.He accidentally drives to the house of Jim Trueblood,who impregnated his own daughter.At the Golden Day tavern, Norton paes in and out of consciousne as World War I veterans being treated at the nearby mental hospital for various mental-health iues occupy the bar and a fight breaks out
among them.Through all the chaos, the narrator manages to get the recovered Mr.Norton back to the campus after a day of unusual events.Upon returning to the
school he is fearful of college president Dr.Bledsoe\'s reaction to the day\'s incidents.Insight into Bledsoe\'s knowledge of the events and the narrator\'s future at the campus is somewhat prolonged as an important visitor arrives.The narrator\'s dreams are shattered asBledsoe expels the narrator, for fear that the college\'s funds will be jeopardized by the incidents that occurred, While the Invisible Man once aspired to be like Bledsoe, he realizes that the man has portrayed himself as a black stereotype in order to succeed in the white-dominated society.Then he arrives in New York and only finds a job in the boiler room of a paint factory.The man in charge of the boiler room, Lucius Brockway, is extremely paranoid and one day and attacks the narrator,which causes a boiler to explode.The narrator is hospitalized after the blast.While recovering, the narrator overhears doctors
discuing him as a mental health patient.After the shock treatments, the narrator attempts to return to his residence when he feels overwhelmed by a certain dizzine and faints on the streets of Harlem.Riots break out in Harlem and the
narrator gets mixed up with a gang of looters.Wandering through a ravaged Harlem, he encounters Ras, who now calls himself Ras the Destroyer.He is trailed by Ras the Exhorter\'s men as he returns to Harlem; buying sunglaes and a hat, he\'s mistaken for a man called Rinehart in several scenarios: a lover; a hipster; a gambler; a briber; and finally, a reverend.He sees that Rinehart has adapted to white society at the cost of his own identity.He decides to take his grandfather\'s dying advice to \"overcome\'em with yeses, undermine\'em with grins, agree\'em to death and destruction....At the end of the novel, the narrator is ready to resurface because \"overt action\" has already taken place.This could be that, in telling us the story, the narrator has already made a political statement where change could occur.Therefore, it is storytelling and the preservation of the history of these invisible individuals that causes political change.
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