Invisible Man Blog

Slavery is such a taboo subject that of course one could say humankind is evil.  The amount of labor and egregious acts blacks were forced to partake in during that time are indisputably horrible things that one person did another.  In Invisible Man, the narrator participates in some activities that would shock today's Average Joe.  For example, the Battle Royale was an event created entirely to humiliate the blacks, and is representative of how the white man was repressive.

However, this novel gives the black man more power and authority than previously given.  The narrator's strong influence through his verbal word creates a following and an image in the city of Harlem that gains him the attention of the civil rights group the Brotherhood.  The Brotherhood is an interesting entity, because I think that while they intend to pursue the interests of the black community, they tend to become sidetracked and misguided when attempting to present their message.  When Clifton is shot dead after his performance on the street with the Sambo dolls, the Brotherhood disapproves of the narrator's speech commemorating him at his funeral.  This entices me to think that the Brotherhood only backs the political views that help them as a party, and not the ones of the individual.  They are a deceiving, manipulating, and unreliable group, and their actions prove to me that they are on the evil part of mankind.

The narrator, on the other hand, is the total opposite.  He always tried to make the best of the situation he is put in, at most times to no avail.