The Invisible Man Chapter 13-16 Analysis

The Invisible Man
Chapter 13-16

While walking around the narrator buys three yams from a guy selling them. Eating the yams on the street made the narrator feel free. HE wished that his friends down south saw him because he didn't care what people thought. The narrator started to day dream about Bledsoe and how he is ashamed of eating black food and how good it would feel to expose him. Upon day dreaming he sees an old couple being evicted. The women was furious and kept saying that the while man was out to get them over and over. The narrator felt the sudden urge to stay and watch but felt ashamed and uncomfortable to be watching such an embarrassing moment. Once the police arrive the narrator leaves and meets a man called brother jack. Brother Jack took the narrator to some
coffee were he tried to get the narrator to become a spokes person for his company but the narrator didn't like the idea and was also turned off by the fact he was white. Upon returning home, the narrator feels guilty for living rent free at Mary’s so he calls jack and they go to a hotel.
At the hotel the narrator meets the Emma who is worried about the image of the narrator because he might not be black enough. Once the narrator agrees to join the brotherhood he has to change his identity and move again. Jack gives the narrator enough money to pay the rent to Mary. In the morning the narrator breaks a piggy bank in the shape of a black man. He thought it to be a mockery. Before Mary could ask any questions the narrator leaves and doesn't inform Mary that he will never be back, which is kind of rude. The narrator tries so hard to get ride of the package but it continues to follow him so he finally accepts it. As Jack says he buys a suit because he will be making a speech in the evening. The narrator has to give a speech in a boxing ring. His speech makes him nervous and he forgets all the important parts that Jack wanted him to say. Because he forgets the speech he decides to talk about blindness which was inspired by the photo of a raining champion that died of blindness. despite giving a nice speech the brotherhood was mad because it didn't follow what they wanted it to. besides their harsh comments the narrator feels better about himself
until he in visions his grandfather.

syntax “It’s break him! Deprive him of his wages!” (342). In the speech of the narrator he uses a lot of short phrases calling out the white people in hopes to get the audiences attention. Being more forward and aggressive is what the narrator needed to make the audience understand that they are more than what they are. The exclamation points show that he was getting louder with his voice which kind of shut the audience up.

Is the grandfather foreshadowing something?

I like this section because it was more about the narrator finding his place in the world. He finally felt like he belonged somewhere. Not necessarily at a certain spot but more accepting of who he is and that he is in the right place for him. The south isn't where he needs to be but up north is a place where he can grow as a person but his grandfather is keeping him from achieving goals that he could of easily. I really hate the grandfather.