Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

As one grows old, he or she gains maturity, knowledge and a sense of completeness. In the saucy Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the narrator goes by dint of and done a series of events that molds and shapes him into the person he is by the end of the young. It took him time, effort, and some(prenominal) setbacks to become that person. Our narrator goes through a great migration from the southeastern to the North like so many other African Americans during the time the legend takes place, through his travels he goes through an native char playacter development as he witnesses racism at its worst. He started as a timid naïve boy exactly after his travels he ended up lastly being free. By the end of the book he in the long run understands the fact that spiritedness in America in general consists of a color barricade between two colors; yet, he is still invisible, but no longer is he blind to reality. Ellison shows the narrators development through significant events withi n the novel as well as significant roles of characters.\nFrom the beginning of the novel our narrator has no identity, for this precedent he is constantly influenced by others and with these influences he does not act the charge he wishes to, so the title of the novel. He confesses this in the quote: My problem was that I always tried to go in everyones way but my own. I nominate also been called one liaison and then another time no one real wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of toilsome to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled (Ellison 573). In novel he is influenced by the ideas of his grandfather, the University he attends, and the characters Norton and Bledsoe. It was the terminology of his grandfather that shaped the philosophy in which the narrator believes and lives by in the beginning of the novel. His grandfather states: overcome em with yeses, bring down em with grins, agree em to death and destruction, let em swoller you till they vo mit or bust wide kick in (Ellison). It ...