Figurative Language In Raphel Ellison's Invisible Man

The novel Invisible Man by Raphel Ellison carries a lot of mean in it. A reader can learn more than one lesson from this novel, and those lesson could be life changing. Ellison writing technique is a little different than other authors. Somethings a reader just might miss if they are not reading carefully. one theme that really gets other to the reader and that surely could not be missed is the theme of becoming your own father. Ellison really gets out to his readers and lets them know that they should not allow society to tell them who they should be. He lets them know that they could be whoever they would like to be. He does this through his use of symbolism of the dark lensed glasses, his use of names, and his creative figurative language such as similes and metaphors. These techniques help his readers to see his message very clearly.
Ellison’s use of names really helps the readers to understand each
He uses simile and metaphors to so this. IM says “Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me.” This quote really describes how the IM really felt around people. He is comparing himself to a mirror because it seemed like people could only see their selves when they look at him. IM say they see everything except him. Ellison is saying that people may make you out to what they want you to be not what you really are. Just as the brotherhood wanted IM because he was good speaker, but they wanted him to say what they told him. They didn’t want him to be him and say what he wanted him to say, therefore, they didn’t see him for who he is they just saw what they wanted to. It’s as if they were looking in to a mirror seeing their self and not