Through out the entire novel Invisible Man everything seems to be related to a battle or comparison of black and white. In the beginning instructions about how to live in a white man's world are given to him by his grandfather. These instructions become a puzzle that he attempts to solve for the rest of his life. On one hand, he accepts his grandfather's explanation as just being insane. However on the other hand he is constantly troubled by its meaning of “yessing”

the whites to death. Invisible Man is a story of a Negro's journey from, from South to North, province to city, and his faith in changing.

He’s Sambo, the dancing doll, ladies and gentlemen.

The "Invisible Man" seems to have body manipulated by various social groups. Though the unqualified assertion of self-gratification was a favorite strategy among American people in the fifties, it is also uninspiring and weak. It violates the actuality of social life. The relationship between outside influences and conditions with personal will is a huge factor. The unfortunate fact remains that to define one's individuality you have to sometimes deal with unfortunate social barriers, which stand in the way, which lead to a huge pot of "infinite possibilities." The barriers or social acceptance could be simply described as being on the black side or the white side. Freedom can be fought for, but it cannot always be willed or granted into existence. It seems almost not to be an accident that even as Ellison's hero asserts the "infinite possibilities" he makes no attempt to identify them.

The Sambo dolls are a white paper doll attacked to black or “invisible” string, which enables them to move like puppets. The white is contrasted against the black once again. The black string is made to be invisible just like the narrator is black and also invisible to everything and everyone around him. When I read the explanation I could see it also being announced at the “Battle Royal” with the black boys being the dolls there to put on a show or do whatever the audience or whites wanted.

He’ll make you want to dance and dance-

The beginning is both nightmare and an interesting struggle. A shy quiet Negro boy comes to a white smoker in a Southern town he is to be awarded with a scholarship. Him and several other Negro boys are rushed to the front of a ballroom, where a blonde stripper tempts and at the same time frightens them by dancing in the nude. The Negro boys now blindfolded stage a "battle royal," which is a free-for-all where they beat each other to the

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Liberty Paints, Running Pg, Black White, South North, Yes He’ll, Reading Invisible, Harlem Communists, He’s Sambo, black white, white paint, sambo dolls, paint factory, white paint factory, invisible narrator, “black white”, scholarship negro, ladies gentlemen, infinite possibilities, “battle royal”,