GNED 1202 Lecture Notes - Hollerado, Stereotype
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Blindness, in both the literal and metaphorical form, plays an essential role in invisible. Blindness represents the intentional avoidance of truth, and it has the power to remake the world according to its vision in the novel (or lack thereof). The usage of invisibility is used during the topic of racism throughout the book. For example, the narrator claims to have become invisible because others refuse to see him. Racial prejudice is the most pernicious form of blindness in ellison"s novel, but it is not the only one. Mr. norton, the narrator"s college"s wealthy, white trustee, cannot or will not see the true nature of his black beneficiaries" lives. But, according to the book, his inability to recognize the true nature of his own self is far more damaging. Whenever i uttered a word of three or more syllables a group of voices would yell for me to repeat it.
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