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Invisible Man

At the end of the "battle-, the boy dreams that he has opened the briefcase given to him with his scholarship to a Negro college and that he finds an inscription reading: "To Whom It May Concern: Keep This Nigger-Boy Running." Pg. 33 .
             At the "Battle Royal- we start out by comparing or separating black and white. There is so much black or negative to be dealt with for example the violence brought upon by the battle. The blacks are looked at as being a negative influence who are on display brawling with each other. While on the other hand there is a lot of white influence that is "right- or positive for example the stripper who is white or the white men who are looked upon as being a superior audience. .
             Then goes to his college and is expelled for having innocently taken a white donor through a Negro gin mill that also happens to be a brothel. His whole experience is to follow this pattern. Whether by choice (white) or accident (black), the structure of Negro respectability rests upon deception and those who profit from it cannot bear to have the reality exposed (another example of white: the college is more than likely dependent upon the Northern white millionaire or the good). The blacks seem to be very dependent upon the whites and what they decide to do. The narrator then leaves for New York, where he works in a white paint factory, becomes a soap boxer for the Harlem Communists, the darling of the fellow-traveling bohemia, and a big wheel in the Negro world. .
             A black man working in a white paint factory well what do you know another example of black being compared to white and also an important realization point for the narrator. The narrator's view upon himself changes along with his employment, which is very symbolic. He is slowly realizing that he is really invisible to everyone. When the narrator was speaking with Mr. Emerson about a job, Mr. Emerson said ".I happen to know of a possible job at Liberty Paints.


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