Book Summary: The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man is a story about an African American man, who had been running throughout his life looking for a means to become successful. He did not realize that he was going about it in the wrong way. He did not see people that he encountered in his life as wanting to do harm or to stop him from obtaining his dreams. He is honest in dealing with people. He did understand that society was not looking for honesty, only a means to justify the end. Society only wanted to hear yes to everything that would help them to accomplish that mean. The invisible man forgot to listen to his ancestors and how they made it in the world. He thought they did not know anything. He thought that the world had changed and those ways did not apply to him. He end up losing himself, identity, and all of the dreams he had for himself. He listen to other and he became to depend on others for a way of life that he believed

that he had some control over, but in reality he had none.
In my opinion The Invisible Man lost sight of what ever the goals and aspirations that he had for himself. He did not understand that he had to act and speak a certain way to get ahead. He refused to accept what his grandfather had told him. He thought that he was an old man and those rules did not apply to him. In his mind, he saw his grandfather thought out his young life saying the same things to him over and over again.
When he got the scholarship to college, they were treated just like the slaves were treated. He thought that was the way to get ahead, not that those people had humiliated him. They treated them like trash. He accepted that treatment and he went to college to obtain his dream of becoming an Educator. He was so naïve and not did understand that you only show the “white man” the good things on the campus. His naivety cause him his scholarship. He did not understand or realize that all his dreams were gone. When they sent him to Harlem with the seven letter and was told not to open them. He was being honest again and did not open not one of those letters. I would have at least open one. Where did honesty get him. No where! He did not have any skills. So what job did he qualify for, none. At least one guy showed him the letter. He had so little understanding of what it took to be a Black man in a white world. He acted like a college boy with book understanding, but no concept of the real world.
The joining of the Brotherhood was doomed to failure. He had his own ideas and opinions but did they used them. He was not seen or heard. The Brotherhood was using him to bring the people together. Then when he got popular they set him up and removed him from Harlem.. They used him to justify a mean, to create chaos. By the time he got back to Harlem, change had taken place. He realized when he saw the young man get kill that it was beyond his abilities to get the people back to where they was. He was invisible but he still had not recognize in his mind that he was the one that was invisible.
He tried to understand what was happening. He was still in the blind. Looking for someone he did not know. He disguised himself to walk among the enemies, not realizing he was already invisible. He had no friends, he cut ties to all his families, and Mary. He was alone. Even the woman he slept with was not his to keep or help him to get information to understand what was going on around him. He was not in control. When the darkness came and everything was being destroyed, he still did not know what he was to do. He ran around all night trying to stay alive and not even the Brotherhood was there to protect him. He was the one to be sacrificed for the Brotherhoods cause. He was not given a choice. His life did not matter, he was a token. Being black meant that you was classified as nothing.
In today society, there is still a lot of prejudice.

Young folk still think that they know it all and do not want to listen to elders in their families. They think that they do not know anything and stuff that happen to them in the past is not happening now. I was told that life repeats itself. We may not be in that era that our grandparents lived in but how much change has taken place that will identify as people not as a color. There is chaos everywhere. There is a lot of invisibility in this generation. They are involved in all kinds of gang. What is the difference between the Brotherhood and a gang. They both want to hear only what will help them to justify the mean. The young is killing the young. There is a lack of understanding what it take to succeed in this world. They are not finishing their education. They can not find jobs and becomes frustrated when they can not feed their families. They are starving so they listen to anything that sounds good. They begin to think they can make a difference, in reality they are being used as a tool for other people

means.
Clarity comes to those who are willing to let it in. We have insight within ourselves. Certain voices we hear and our feeling help us to understand. Does it take us to fall in a sewer before we have clarity. We have our families, friends, and other to help us to succeed in life. But when you lose focus and do not listen that which is ingrained inside of us since birth that is when you become invisible.