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Summary: Real Rating: One Million Stars
Review: Who are you, and where did you come from? Read this book and find out. A wonderful exploration of identity and history, and how the two play on each other. Perhaps the best novel I have ever read. Amazing!
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Summary: What A Great Book!
Review: In the book the Invisible Man, the narrator opens the story up playing music of the great Louis Armstrong looking over the past events that have taken place in his life, explaining his position in life now. He attends college in the south where people such as Dr. Bledsoe and Mr. Norton make new changes in his life that he has to adjust to. They send him to New York to find a job and was told that later he could return to the college, which was in fact a lie. He writes, talks, and visits some of the supervisors and receives very little responses, until he meets Mr. Emerson's son who tells him to work for Liberty Paints, which he is unsuccessful in doing, after getting hurt on the job, and ending up in the hospital. He makes a speech on an eviction that he witnesses and people admire him, including a man named Brother Jack who hires him to work for the Brotherhood. The narrator makes speeches, which makes him well known in the community until he wants to make changes in the Brotherhood and is refused. People, especially in the Brotherhood begin to turn on him and he decides to get away. During the rally he finds a hole in the ground and decides to face the fact of his invisibility. He stays there and burns documents that brought back memories of his past. He figures that his invisibility is permanent and will never change.This book really showed me how ignorant some people in this world can be. In the beginning, the narrator was in fact invisible and kept to himself until many changes began to take part which made him happy after the major transitions in his life. He begins to open up and doesn't care too much of what other people say, do, or how they treat him. But in the end he goes back to the many events that took place earlier in the book and decides to give up and face the fact that he is invisible. He displays a sense of superiority and is omnipotent during his transitional stage in the Brotherhood to others but now towards the end begins to feels powerless. He also showed very strong feelings through his language and tone. I felt that even though this book was indeed deep it taught me some lessons for myself. I would recommend this book to people my age and older.
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Summary: A must-read book...
Review: Invisible Man is a novel about a man who believes to be invisible not literally, but figuratively speaking. The narrator believes that he is looked down upon because of the way he is treated, hence his "invisiblity." He encounters several events throughout the story that teach him several lessons about life even though some of those lessons lead him into trouble). Throught the story he is betrayed several times by the people he trusts (includng himself). He also has to battle fiercely for the things he acquires, and it is evident that he treasures these things (such as his briefcase during the burning of the apartment in New York). In my opinion, this is one of the better-written novels. The events are written from a first-person standpoint, rather than from a viewpoint where the narrator (who cleverly remains nameless), looks back on the events, which allows me to "put myself in his shoes." The events in the book are very captivating and are displayed in a very descriptive manner, which lays out the thoughts and feeling of the narrator and allows the reader to develop thoughts of his own. I enjoyed the book, although during some parts of the book confused me.
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Summary: Unforgetable Drama
Review: I enjoyed reading this prestigious novel because of how descriptive it was. Though some of the parts kind of dragged on. Other than that the book touched me on so many different levels. Reading about a man trying to survive and grow in the world that has been set before him. It proves to be an enormous struggle that he must overcome. I especially liked the section of the novel during the start of the book. For those who haven't read this novel i'm not going to spoil it for you but for a 15-year old student it was quite interesting. This book was extremely interesting by touching on the facts of African American life and how hard it was to survive. "Keep that nigger boy running". If you do read this book remember this quote and never forget it, which knows it might help you later in life by referring back to your ancestors time.
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Summary: The Most Boring Book in the World!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Invisible Man is the first book that I read in which every word was boring and pointless. I understood what it was about, however I felt it was pointless. The prologue was even boring! All in all you can read this book and be the judge of it yourself but prepared to be bored out of your mind unless you enjoy reading about how a african american is betrayed over and over again.
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Summary: Meant for the analytical mind and questioning character.
Review: Never have I read or even heard of any book that provides such an interesting literary experience. This powerful prose takes you inside the mind of a person who, because of his environment, has been forced to overanalyze life and to try and understand the twisting concept of distinguishing truth from its perpetrator.
On his winding journey, a man lives his life never truly knowing anything and questioning all that he has previously learned to accept, and in doing so, forfeits life entirely.
The issue that was prevalent at the time of this story's publication (race and discrimination)was used as a stage upon which the scenes of a man's life unfolded, and, using symbolism and various allusions, the author was able to show the amazing complexity of something as simple as childhood nicknames.
I recommend this book to those who enjoy the challenge of reading between the lines, or to those who want to know what it's like to be a part of someone's thoughts.
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Summary: A good book to read
Review: I thought that this book reall concntrated on the way the narrator felt about is role in th world and how he actually made it through and learned so much about himself. From the different settings of the story yoou can see what he learned from each place. He also compared the things He saw in new York to the new things he learned from where he came from down South. Often through this story he called himself Invisible and soon realizd that it wasn't true and that he merely had to find himself in the midst of his troubles. The book was good if you like to read about the way things were before you were born.
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Summary: Literary fun house
Review: As opposed to the straightforward social realism of fellow Harlem Resonance icon, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison employs a distinctly allegorical and baroque approach for his portrait of pre-Civil Rights Movement, African-American life, Invisible Man. Mr. Ellison's tale of a nameless, black college student's journey from the constraining South to the unreal black mini-nation of Harlem is a walk through a literary fun house, full of comedic satire, surreal exaggeration, elusive symbolism and almost beatnick-style lyricism. Mr. Ellison certainly shows a flair for absorbing the wretchedness, paranoia and hypocrisy that was abound during this era and reformatting it all into a configuration that underscores its wrongness and absurdity. Invisible Man proved Mr. Ellison to be one of the most striking authors of the Harlem Resonance and certainly the most dynamic and experimental.
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Summary: An Absolute Masterpiece
Review: Invisible Man is one of the greatest novels of this century. Ellison only published the one novel during his lifetime, but he was correct when he said that there wasn't much more to say. Invisible Man is told my an unnamed narrator (an effective device since the narrator hasn't totally found his existential self). He is an African American from the south living in New York. He has come to the realization that he is invisible in that people choose (conciously or subconciously) to look through him. He then tells the story of his life which has lead him to that epiphany. Invisible Man is really marvelous. It is an existential novel of not really an African American in a prejudiced time and place, but really an American trying to find his identity in that prejudiced country. Ellison has so much to say about the races being a little of each other, not really being separate. He has so much to say to all of humanity. He tells everything in a smoothly written narrative. The prose is beautiful. The plot is entertaining and causes thought. This novel is just as valid today as it was when written and cannot be missed by the upcoming generation.
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Summary: visible invisible
Review: invisible man is a super book. Everyone should read it!
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