Powerful Characterization in The Invisible Man :: Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison manages to develop a strong philosophy through oddballization in the Invisible Man. Ellison portrays the lonely narrators quest in struggling to search for his personal identity and an understanding of his times. The well development of the character lays out the foundation on the philosophy of finding and understanding himself. Through a labyrinth of subversion and deceit the narrator undergoes events that manage to enrich his experience and further return in his search for himself. Such scenes include the battle royal scene, the college, Truebloods visit, and the formula seller. The narrator at first never realizes his innocence. At first the purposeless Invisible Man is invited to attend his scholarship award ceremony. However with new(prenominal) Negroes he is rushed to the front of the ballroom where a stripper frightens them by dancing in nude. by and by staging the battle royal and attack one another in response to the drunken shouts of the rich colour folk, the boy is brought to give his prepared oration of gratitude to the white benefactors. An accidental point out to equality nearly ruins him, but the narrator manages to survive and is given a briefcase containing a scholarship to a Negro college. This acts a high handbill in the narrators quest since it sets him for his struggle in searching for himself. The narrator adores the college as yet is thrown out before long by its president, Dr.Bledsoe, the great pedagogue and leader of his race. Ironically the narrator had seen Dr.Bledsoe as an idol aiming to gradually depict him. He was expelled for permitting, Mr.Norton , one of the college founders into the slave quarters and the Golden Day bar. After that incident the Invisible Man goes through the sense that he is losing his identity. This initiates an advertize of confusion as the narrator is now brought in a rowing against himself. In the prologue the Invisible Man quotes, I was nave...I was looking f or myself and intercommunicate everyone except myself questions which only I could answer. The narrator is tempted to set out in the quest to search for his identity. The prologue identified the theme to the readers. It was however during Truebloods visit that the character manages to learn about his truthful background and roots. It is through such people, of his true