Chapter 40-Mary In A Wall Of Fire
40- Mary serves as a child bearer to the protagonist because she provided for him without having to know who he was. She was the one who encouraged him to take the offer of working with the Brotherhood and made him more active in the fight for racial tolerance. “It's you young folks what's going to make the changes...You got to lead and you got to fight and move us all on up a little higher" (Ellison, 255).
Q.41- The protagonist is feeling the need to pursue activism in New York at the end of this chapter because after the awareness of discomfort in invisibility and utter aloneness, “the more old urge to make speeches returned.” His isolation makes him long for a home in order for him to create an identity and an establishment for himself. …show more content…
“I felt the hard, mechanical isolation of the hospital machine and I didn't like it” and “The light was so strong that I could no longer see the audience, the bowl of human faces” (Ellison, 341). These are some examples of how the description of the stage contributed to the protagonist confinement.
Q. 49- Some members of the Brotherhood resented the protagonist speech because it was not what they ordained him to speak, it was not unscientific, it was winged, and it was not the way of the Brotherhood. Nonetheless, Brother Jack found it effective because he was able to grasp the attention of the audience.
Chapter Seventeen
Q.50- Tod Clifton deemed a more effective spokesman than the protagonist because he is what the Brotherhood wants out of a speaker. In the previous chapter, the protagonist gave a speech that was a build up of thoughts that have been newly developed since his abandonment from college. The members of the Brotherhood claims that his speech was “wild, hysterical, politically irresponsible, incorrect and dangerous” (Ellison, 349). It was not accepting nor was it their way of speech givings. Also, he has been in the organization longer than him and gained the affection of
Q.41- The protagonist is feeling the need to pursue activism in New York at the end of this chapter because after the awareness of discomfort in invisibility and utter aloneness, “the more old urge to make speeches returned.” His isolation makes him long for a home in order for him to create an identity and an establishment for himself. …show more content…
“I felt the hard, mechanical isolation of the hospital machine and I didn't like it” and “The light was so strong that I could no longer see the audience, the bowl of human faces” (Ellison, 341). These are some examples of how the description of the stage contributed to the protagonist confinement.
Q. 49- Some members of the Brotherhood resented the protagonist speech because it was not what they ordained him to speak, it was not unscientific, it was winged, and it was not the way of the Brotherhood. Nonetheless, Brother Jack found it effective because he was able to grasp the attention of the audience.
Chapter Seventeen
Q.50- Tod Clifton deemed a more effective spokesman than the protagonist because he is what the Brotherhood wants out of a speaker. In the previous chapter, the protagonist gave a speech that was a build up of thoughts that have been newly developed since his abandonment from college. The members of the Brotherhood claims that his speech was “wild, hysterical, politically irresponsible, incorrect and dangerous” (Ellison, 349). It was not accepting nor was it their way of speech givings. Also, he has been in the organization longer than him and gained the affection of