Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Invisible Man follows an unnamed African American narrator from the southern United States after he is expelled from his college for following the orders of a white man as he is sent north to New York City with the promise of a job. The reality is that a job does not await him. The novel opens with the young man about to give a speech to a bunch of influential white men, but before that happens he and a bunch of other black men are pitted against one another in a blind fight for the amusement of the white men. After the fight, they are used as entertainment further, when the white men urge them to dive for money on an electrified mat. It is all very disgusting. When the narrator gives his speech he is awarded with a scholarship to attend school, which leads to the problem above. He is chosen to escort and drive a white school founder around the campus, when the founder asks to be taken to see some slave cabins. An incident occurs which causes...