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

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