"I am invisible simply because people refuse to
see me" ( Ellison, 1).
This quote from the third sentence of first paragraph of the first page of
Ralph Ellison's historically reveered novel Invisble Man, truly
struck me. In it's understated truth, burgeoning applicability and how much
sense such a simple statement can make. There are several major themes in
Ellison's novel that speak to both a time of extreme racial tensions and the
modern strife today. The noel highlights and entertains the audience with real
world struggle as general beings to asses our valued, to be noticed or even
equal among a crowd who has ascertained ones existence as unworthy or unamusing.
In the following posts I hope to divulge upon the reality of the causes,
consequences and possible advantages of being a ghost of your own existence in
a world who is too busy making their own way to shed even a tear of false
compassion.
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