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In addition to analyzing and discussing literature, students will also have the option of writing three argumentative essays modeled after those found on the AP Literature and Composition Exam: a poetry analysis, a passage analysis, and a literary argument. Students will learn how to properly analyze a text through the "four pillars" of literary analysis-diction, imagery, language, and syntax-and how authors use various literary techniques-such as point of view, characterization, and setting-to establish tone and convey theme. So I for one would recommend Invisible Man to anyone who wouldn’t mind delving into some weighty issues and different prose style then one is currently used to, the book is supremely rewarding.This four-week intensive study of Ralph Ellison's classic novel Invisible Man focuses on the fundamentals of literary analysis so students better understand the writer's craft while acquiring skills and knowledge necessary for college. However that’s not to say that there is no humor to be found in the book, a dealing with mental patients early in the book grim as it may be, resulted in gales of laughter from myself. In fact this style was picked because Ellison thought that the modern styles of day such as Naturalism could not represent what he wanted to represent.Īll in all, Invisible Man is a very challenging book, and I felt as Ellison examined aforementioned issues in a dark and interesting way. The stream of consciousness style that Ellison uses, enhances this confusion more thoroughly. Which makes sense considering the time period the author wrote it in( the 1950s) was a rather dark place for civil rights and most everything would not have a straightforward solution. ![]() ![]() Whether his place in society, behavior around whites, or his own “invisibility” there is not a clear answer forĪny of these problems. This disorientation enhances the novel, because the novel is one that is built on top of confusion, and the main character’s dealing with confusion. This sets up mind boggling questions in the first paragraph of the book, which is that if people can’t see him because they didn’t see him in the past, has he been invisible forever?, and why can’t they choose to see him now? The book starts out with the main character/ narrator (who remains unnamed through the novel” announcing that he is an “invisible man”, and then goes on to say that he is this way “because people refuse to see him” ( Ellison 7). ![]() The book is about an African American man who has rejected in the mainstream world and has holed up in a basement, through discussing the events that lead him there issues of racial harmony, the illusion of success, and black nationalism are discussed. However, maybe that is a hope in vain, because Invisible Man is a novel that will disorient almost anyone who reads it. ![]() As great a book as Invisible Man is, I can not help but feel that one would be woefully disoriented reading Ellison’s distillation of his thoughts on race and identity in novel form when one expected a story about an actual invisible man. Hopefully someone never picks up Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, mistaking it for the science fiction novel The Invisible Man by H.G.
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