![]() And like any coming-of-age story, there is a lot of interior and external conflict. We see the maturing process of the narrator as he goes from being an innocent boy to one who begins to question his identity but can’t seem to reconcile it with his role as a black man in (racist) 1950s America. Due to some events I won’t get into he moves to Harlem to look for work. The book starts off with the narrator attending a college in the American South. I really enjoy coming of age books and this one is no exception. It has taken a second reading for me to truly process the content of this book, and still I can’t exactly say I understand all the symbolism. When I first read the book last year, the above quote really stood out to me. I am invisible because people refuse to see me…When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination- indeed, everything and anything except me.” “I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a mind. ![]() This is a very clever and very incisive and very allegorical but still compelling plotwise book, which had one chapter i hated and 24 i truly enjoyed. If we don't get invisible now, when will we. This has that specific high school assigned reading feeling of "I Am Culturally Relevant In A Way That May Fit The Syllabi Of Both Your History And Your English Classes." which is a bizarre sense to have in the midst of adult life.Īh yes, literature's favorite problem-solving tactic: There Must Be A Woman Who Can Do This For MeĬrazy how you can be absolutely and totally on board for an entire book only for the penultimate chapter to just about lose you entirely. "And I wanted both to smash her and to stay with her." little did ralph ellison know that in the future those would be synonyms.įolks, i believe we are beginning to witness the titular invisibility. The Woman Question? sounds like me asking my boyfriend why he loves me at the exact moment he's about to fall asleep, am i right? this guy gets it! The worst kind of sabotage is when the person f*cking your sh*t up is not malicious. Watching the beautiful and pastoral color-based descriptions switch to the same language and style for violence and suffering.wow. Let's get fired up!!!!! it's speech time! it's called the betterment of society - look it up.Īlso to throw things away? i thought that went without saying but then i encountered the plot of this chapter. which is the best kind.īreaking ugly decorations in a home should be the right of every single human. and also my origin story of accidentally reinventing the word "invisibleness" through a combination of parallel thinking and it being monday.Īnd the party is mostly an induction into the revolution. We're getting into the invisibility origin story. Nearly as good as this mary character and the idea of dumping a bucket of mop water on an actively preaching reverend. "the cool splash of sleep" - that's so good. Nothing is horror-movie-level scary like medical malpractice. ![]() He's working in the Liberty White Paint factory.folks, we have officially moved into metaphor city. "I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge" is the proper reaction to literally all of this. i got a letter" feels suspenseful to me.Ī rich white daddy's boy telling our protagonist that he's the one who's "freed" while this spoiled kid is trapped, and that he can be his valet, since he really wants to help. It speaks to how invested i am in this that "something had to happen tomorrow, and it did. It is very hard to come up with my goofy little entries for each day of this project when i think each chapter is very good and i keep finding myself taking it very seriously. The OTHER thing is that, on top of everything else, this also has some of the most gorgeous and visual descriptions i've read in recent memory. Kind of cool that there was very little that could ail you in old times that couldn't be cured by a glass of whiskey at a strip club. the dichotomy between how the intellectual student and the castout are treated by the millionaire.so fascinating. The way the theme of what white people want and expect and reward in Black people here is shown and not told is brilliant. clear from chapter one that it is going to be brutal and excellent. extremely cool nonsense behavior by me.Ĭlear from the prologue this would be a solid read for me. Love to own a book for 8 years without ever picking it up and then immediately find it compulsively readable from the very first page. If saying you want to read long classics counts as reading them, i'm the smartest girl in the world. It's another PROJECT LONG CLASSIC installment. another several-week period that shall be spent reading it, one chapter at a time, daily. another paragon of literature added to my currently reading. another impeccable pun combining the title of a seminal work with the month it currently is.
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