Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the story of a young black man whose name the reader never learns. He is a young man from the South who is haunted by his grandfather's deathbed warning against conforming to the wishes of white people because the young man sees that as the way to be successful. After a series of multiple incidents, He builds himself a room in the cellar of an all-white building and hibernates there contemplating his relationship to reality and the invisibility he feels is caused by his race. He lives in that hole until he runs into Mr. Norton one day in the subway and realizes that he will no longer conform to white expectations of him. www.bookrags.com
It is a great book, but I would only recommend it if your students are at a very advanced level. It is over five hundred pages and requires in depth evaluation of symbolism and a decent knowledge base of history and its references. I definitely should have at the very least waited until my students had practiced reading some less complex novels.
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