Last Invisible Man Journal

“The End was in the Beginning” (571).

What a crazy end to an amazing story! The battle at the end of the story brings an awesome climax to a story that already was full of suspense. The line “The end was in the beginning” is very interesting, but true. The story begins with him talking about the events at the end of the story, and ends the same way. This story seems very usable on AP Timed Writes due to its vast range of topics. The main character has so many things happen to him and is forced to change over a rapid period of time. I loved this book when I read it the first time, and I loved it again the second time. I noticed that, it wasn’t until the end that the narrator experienced a sense of finality in life. Throughout the entire novel, he was always looking for something, whether it was honor (at the beginning), an education (at the university), or a job. It wasn’t until he decides to go into hiding, that he experiences a sense of contentedness with the state of his life. It makes sense that his sense of self-assurance stems from the peace he feels from being in hiding.

Erik, did you like this book? I enjoyed it a lot, and I want to know how you feel about this book. It talks about a lot of touchy subjects, and pulls at your emotions, which is probably why I liked it a lot.

INVISIBLE MAN NUMBER 3

Jason Armer

Mrs. Disher

LA Period 1

04/25/2016

“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own”

            It is amazing to see how many new things I have noticed reading the book the second time. I feel that, now that I have matured a bit, the book has a different meaning to me. I felt kind of naïve to the racist situation the first time I read this book, but now I feel like I understand the severity of the racism. This quote exemplifies the state of depression that the Invisible Man enters. Also, it shows a sort of autonomy that the Invisible Man has fallen into with the world around him. He gets thrown into this stereotype, momentarily shrugs it off, and then falls back into it again. It happens time after time in this book, and to read it frustrates me. I still have seen very little character development in the narrator, because he still does not understand the severity of the stereotype that he has fallen into. The narrator was forced to grow up in a big hurry when he went off to college, but he failed to live up to that standard. Deep down, the narrator remains immature, foolish, and uninformed about himself and the world he lives in. He does not understand the divisions in social class based on race and wealth. This class division causes him to make the mistakes throughout the book that he has.

Invisible Man Journal 4

Jason Armer

Mrs. Disher

4/21/2016

“Our hope shot down”

            The death of Brother Clifton seemed very peculiar to me. It kind of parallels racial injustice that we see today. Brother Clifton was selling Sambo dolls (dolls that mimicked African-Americans in a borderline racist way, when a cop showed up and all of a sudden started pushing him down. Naturally, Clifton retaliated, and things escalated quickly. At the end, the cop shot the defenseless Clifton, and ended his life. The cop did not see Clifton as the man he was, but as a threat to society due to the color of his skin. At his funeral rally, I feel that the narrator handled the situation well. The metaphors that he spoke in provided a sense of dramatic irony, because we know what he was talking about (protesting the Brotherhood), but the audience that was listening to him did not know what he was talking about. The story gets crazier and crazier. I love the plotline in this story (having read it before) and I know that it certainly does not get any more boring. My question for you is, how would you have reacted if you were in Clifton’s shoes? I think I would have reacted the same way that Clifton did in the story. Also, how do you feel about the way the narrator reacted at the funeral rally?