Summary Of The Invisible Man Chapter 1 Answer Key
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Chapter 5 Study Guide
Plot Summary:
The narrator goes to chapel where all of the students are supposed to go and where Dr. Bledsoe is at.
Dr. Bledsoe along with only one other man is the only black people standing in front of the congregation.
The narrator takes notice that Dr. Bledsoe has no trouble touching a white man and he remembers how difficult it was for him to lay his hands on Mr. Norton.
The other black man is Reverend Homer A. Barbee and he gives a sermon about the biography of the school’s founder.
The school’s founder died, but Barbee assures them that his presence is in the school.
The narrator starts becoming even more depressed about possibly being expelled from school because he thinks he can see Barbee’s vision for the school.
The narrator hears a song that reminds him of his parents called …show more content…
A curious person because, obviously, the Invisible Man reflects upon various everyday things and looks at them from a new perspective. An intelligent person because the things he compares the “sweeping eaves” to is not something most people think of on a daily basis. In this quote, the Invisible Man also tells us that he sees a difference between nature and man.
“And there on the platform I too had stridden and debated, a student leader directing my voice, at the highest beams and farthest rafters, ringing them, the accents staccato upon the ridgepole and echoing back with a tinkling, like words hurled to the trees of a wilderness, or into a well of slate-gray water; more sound than sense, a play upon the resonances of buildings, an assault upon the temples of the ear...” Page
Chapter 5 Study Guide
Plot Summary:
The narrator goes to chapel where all of the students are supposed to go and where Dr. Bledsoe is at.
Dr. Bledsoe along with only one other man is the only black people standing in front of the congregation.
The narrator takes notice that Dr. Bledsoe has no trouble touching a white man and he remembers how difficult it was for him to lay his hands on Mr. Norton.
The other black man is Reverend Homer A. Barbee and he gives a sermon about the biography of the school’s founder.
The school’s founder died, but Barbee assures them that his presence is in the school.
The narrator starts becoming even more depressed about possibly being expelled from school because he thinks he can see Barbee’s vision for the school.
The narrator hears a song that reminds him of his parents called …show more content…
A curious person because, obviously, the Invisible Man reflects upon various everyday things and looks at them from a new perspective. An intelligent person because the things he compares the “sweeping eaves” to is not something most people think of on a daily basis. In this quote, the Invisible Man also tells us that he sees a difference between nature and man.
“And there on the platform I too had stridden and debated, a student leader directing my voice, at the highest beams and farthest rafters, ringing them, the accents staccato upon the ridgepole and echoing back with a tinkling, like words hurled to the trees of a wilderness, or into a well of slate-gray water; more sound than sense, a play upon the resonances of buildings, an assault upon the temples of the ear...” Page