Blog #3~ Bro He’s Invisible ??

What do you think happened just before your story started?
Well this book is all about racial injustice, hate crimes, and blatant racism. It takes place in the early twentieth century so slavery had ended a few centuries prior to this but America was still heavily segregated, which is what this book mainly focuses on.

Think about a setting in your book. If you were in the setting, what are some things you might see?
The setting of the book begins in the good ol’ American South. I (obviously) live in America already but I was born in 2004 so I don’t know exactly how it feels to be living in America in the early 1900’s like the main character. But I don’t think it’s really the setting of the book that Ellison wants us to focus on. In a lot of books the plot is surrounded by/fueled by the main characters’ surroundings, but with this book it’s more so revolved around how the characters are treated based solely on how they look. Much like how in real life stupid things like skin color, gender, the clothes you wear, hair color etc. impact how you will be treated in you everyday life. “Invisible Man” emphasizes the unfair treatment of Black-Americans a crap ton in a very unique way. Just the first few sentences draws me in. This book isn’t suppose to be a fantasy or crazy in the sense of it being so fictional and outlandish but instead crazy as in how real it is and how ignorant hate like this still goes on today.

List three facts about this book. Then, list three opinions about it.
–Ellison states that he started this book just by typing “I am an invisible man.”.. no story behind it, nothing elaborate nor amazing thought of yet, just “I am an invisible man”. I find this fascinating because you don’t see writers doing this very often, usually when someone starts writing they have some sort of plot or plan going through their heads on what the story’s going to be from the beginning to the end. So for Ellison to just type out this one line and put so much feeling, emotion, and truth into it- I just gotta applaud him for that.
–Supposedly, in 2013 “Invisible Man” was pulled from a North Carolina school because a parent claimed the book had ‘inappropriate language’ for 11th graders. I just have to roll my eyes at this, like 11th graders ?? Really ??! In 11th grade you’re almost an adult, I haven’t read through the book enough to know specifically what they were referring to but I know it can’t be that bad that almost 18 year olds shouldn’t be allowed to read it..
–Ellison started this book in 1945-1942, it took 7 years to write !! That’s dedication ! And he must of had a real passion for what he was writing about in order for him to work on a novel for almost a decade. To which I gave him another set of applause for.