INVISIBLE MAN POEM

What defines invisible?

Can it be metaphoric or

must it be literal

To be invisible

seems like you'd be miserable

metaphoric or literal

One can still be invisible

whether it is metaphorically

or literal

the point is anyone can feel invisible

We as individuals

define what is invisible.

This is my poem on Invisible Man comparin and contrasting what defines invisible and how one can be invisible metaphorically and literally. This relates to the character in Invisible Man because he feels he is invisible and at the end of the novel his invisibility takes a turn to leave him as a permanent outcast leavin him truly invisible.

A Black Man's View

I'm reading Invisible Man, just like many of you.  A while back in the first chapter, there was a section which stood out to me and made me think. Here, the narrator speaks of his grandfather, who on his death bed told him, "I have been a traitor all my days," and when speaking about the whites said "overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction." The narrator reports that this is a huge difference from the point of view and character they believed this man had. I believe the grandfathers reasoning and intent was strange, but sound. I think that the white people of that time actually expected the blacks to act more unsophisticated, even animalistic, compared to themselves.  The grandfather did what they (the whites) proclaimed to want, which was being black and acting happy with his lot in life and acting civily.  However, the grandfather knew that deep down the whites' actual desires were different, even if they didnt know it themselves.  He beleieved they wanted the blacks to act poorly so that they could have a large group of people to look down upon (humans are selfish in nature). So, the grandfather acted how the whites proclaimed they wanted him to act, not because he was trying to be good, but because he was completely rebellious, wanting to undermine them in a new form of rebellion.

-Chad

Invisible Man Introduction (Rewrite)

Hello Everybody!

Tell me what you all think about this rewrite I wrote on Invisible Man's introduction. Thanks in advance.

"I am the struggling soul. No, I am not a sufferer like those given charity by the American Red Cross; nor am I one of your orphanage dwellers. I am a soul of pride, of success and goals, dreams and ambition- and I might even be said to work hard. I am struggling, understand, simply because I have neared the point of give up. Like the down-in-the-dumps one sees on the streets, it is as though I have been attacked by swords of negative disappointing energy. When I question myself, I ask only my inhibition, itself, or follies of my injuries- indeed everything and anything except me."

                                                       

-Sasan