The same potential solutions were supplied by the ideologies the invisible man faces during the plot - namely those of Bledsoe and Norton, the Brotherhood, and Ras. For being able to investigate the main character's search for identity these different ideologies are examined in order to divide his quest into different developmental stages. ... Still believing in the college's ideology he intends to return to his school. ... Washington's ideology the narrator first denies his southern black background when a typical southern breakfast is offered to him in a drugstore. ... Throug...

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At the start of Malcolm X's journey as a self-educated black leader he talked a lot about hating white people, was a black Muslim with a nationalistic ideology, and spoke with violent rhetoric to intimidate white people. ... People become so caught up in King's philosophies on love and nonviolence that they do not recognize that he opposed the Vietnam War, was harassed by the FBI, who alleged he had ties to the Communist party, or the different phases of his life were his thinking evolved. ... He recognized that his ideology of women was wrong and for black men to become educated...

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The summaries in this paper examine several unique and sometimes conflicting perspectives that, taken together, give the reader of Native Son a deeper understanding of the novels purpose. Finding the purpose of the novel is a challenge, because the initial reaction is one of shock and dismay. As a...

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• Grade Level: High School