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.
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