For this essay, select two or three important events from different parts of the novel and discuss how these events either help or hinder the narrators quest to find out who he is and how he should live in society. Use one of the cultural context readings to develop your argument.
Make sure your paper has a clear central argument supported by specific textual evidence. This includes citing the novel and the 'cultural contexts' essays. Make connections between that essay and your thesis. Consider how the works of Emerson, Washington, DuBois, Locke, Garvey, or Ellisons 'Harlem Is Nowhere' and West Point essays relate to Invisible Man and the narrators quest for identity. Include page numbers when you quote or paraphrase information from Ellisons text or the other readings.
Suggestions for Events:
Speeches (graduation, eviction, boxing arena, Tod Cliftons funeral)
Interactions with women (magnificent blond at the Battle Royal, Emma, Woman Question encounter, Sybil)
Interaction with those in power (men at the smoker/Battle Royal, Dr. Bledsoe, Emerson, Lucius Brockway, Mr. Norton, Ras, Jack)
Interactions with other African-Americans (his grandfather, Dr. Bledsoe, Jim Trueblood, Lucious Brockway, Mary, Ras, Rinehart, Tod Clifton, Wrestrum)
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