Invisible Man Book Project #2

·         Among Ellistons most pivotal early experiences is the death of his grandfather, who first opens the young boy's eyes to the fact that appearances do not always represent reality. He has a hard core, just like a peach, and how he endured the death of his grandfather.

 

·         Invisible Man shows a lot of allusions to other texts. Ellison draws from sources as diverse as classical European texts. Which shows his fuzzy, “different” skin.

 

·          "Ellison uses everything he knows, not to prove anything to anybody but to exploit as fully as possible the artistic materials he is conjuring” This shows how he uses his resources as the peach would when it falls off the tree and re-grows a new tree using its own fruit as nutrients.

Quotes

“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
―Ernest Hemingway

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank

                                                                          Peach

·         The narrator remains a voice and never emerges as an actual presence. This emphasizes him as an “invisible man.”

 

·         Ellison renders the narrator’s voice as that of a man looking back on his experiences with greater perspective, but he makes sure that the reader sees into the mind of the still-innocent character.