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1. Metaphor, "You got enough ether in those clothes to put to sleep a dog!" (254)

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Simile, "...abstract game with rules as obsolete as Noah's Ark..." (256)

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Homburgs- a man's felt hat having a narrow curled brim and a tapered crown.-(257)

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epidermis- the surface epithelium of the skin.-(3)

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Hyperbole, ”holding on desperately to one of my eyes in order to keep from bursting out my brain” (146-147).

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luncheonette- a small, informal restaurant serving lunches.-(298)

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Mr. Norton had a moral dilemma when Jim Trueblood is telling them about his past experience with his daughter. Norton is having a dilemma because he felt the same way about his daughter but was never able to complete his dream because he knew it was wrong.

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The narrator is trying to help Mr. Norton when a veteran comes over and helps him. The veteran who used to be a doctor is talking to the narrator about how he is a “automaton” and how neither of them “can see the other”(the narrator and Mr. Norton).

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After the narrator sees the way Dr. Bledsoe acts around the rich trustee's he is able to figure out that Bledsoe is putting on a "fake face" to manipulate them to his advantage.

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Spieled- reel off; recite.-(433)

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Chthonian- concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld.-(299)

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Hitherto - until now or until the point in time under discussion.-(249)

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Sullen - bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy.-(267)

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The narrator drops off his final letter of recommendation from Dr. Bledsoe when he finds out that it wasn't actually a letter of recommendation but actually letters explaining that the narrator was sent to New York in order to protect the college and that he was expelled.

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(326) Linoleum- a material consisting of a canvas backing thickly coated with a preparation of linseed oil and powdered cork, used especially as a floor covering.

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(13) Monopolated- To dominate or use to the exclusion of others.

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any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints, muscles, or fibrous tissue, especially rheumatoid arthritis.

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The veteran caretaker Supercargo gets into a brawl with the veterans he's supposed to look after when they revolt against him at the Golden Day.

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After Mr. Norton gets some whiskey and some rest he begins to feel much better after his interaction with Jim Trueblood causes him to suddenly fall ill.

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The narrator asks Brother Tarp why he has a limp, and Tarp says "...But it was the chain, and after nineteen years I haven't been able to stop dragging my leg." (387).

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At the beginning of the story, the narrator talks about how he is not exactly invisible in the way he's seen through, but in the sense that he's shunned by the public and the human eye. "I am an invisible man...Like the bodiless heads you sometimes see in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass." (3).

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Dr. Bledsoe reminds the narrator that he is a black man in the south and asks him if he forgot how to lie after his bad experience with Mr. Norton.

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Flashback, "They let me get close to the dogs once in a while, that's how...all that water and mud and rain said yes, and I took off." (388)

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Simile, ”Mr. Norton's head jerked like a jabbed punching bag.” (79).

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Metaphor, "He registers with his senses but short circuits" (94)

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Simile, "They say it's sound as a piece of steel..." (387).

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Imagery, "a young platinum blonde nibbled at a red Delicious apple as the station lights rippled past behind her." (250)

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Imagery, "I saw grey marks appearing where the old skin was flaking away beneath my digging nails" (318).

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Imagery, "Their shoulders rocking, their heavy heel plates clicking remote." (443)

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¨Get rid of your cotton patch ways¨ (320).

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¨Get rid of your cotton patch ways¨ (320).

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This quote shows the underlying and still mildly racist thought process of our main character. By saying this it implies that his ancestors essentially had no culture or home training. It Hows that even through all of the things he had been through up to this point he still had t abandoned his old racists teachings.

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The main character attempting to leave Mary's home causes him immense stress. Where in he feels some form of connection to her despite the fact that's she is just his Land lady. This is likely because of the fact that over the past few months the main character has been treated like dirt and he has finally found something to treat him well for once

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The narrator bumps into a man at night and is called an insulting name so he jumps at the man and beat him while the man continued to insult him and the narrator pulls out a knife to kill him but stops himself.

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After the narrator was released from the hospital he was having trouble remembering who he was. Although he couldn't remember who he was he felt different, he was no longer afraid of who he used to be afraid of.

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The narrator meets Brother Jack who recruits him to work for the Brotherhood. Brother Jack hands him a paper with a name on it and tells him "This is your new identity".

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Ras the Exhorter and Brother Tod Clifton, two leaders in opposing organizations got into a fight that soon led into Ras threatening to kill Clifton and pulling out a knife.

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Tod Clifton got into an entanglement with the police which caused them to get into a physical altercation, Clifton ended up punching an officer, the officer then pulls his gun and shoots Clifton dead in the street.

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Once the Main character co.ws black from his hiatus he finds himself back the bar where he is heckled by a man who disliked being called brother and nearly gets into a fight where the MC notes that he believes himself above such petty matters

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The main character finds Clifton on the street after watching preformance from a doll. The whole operation was a way for Cliffton to make a quick buck.However this goes against all of the tennants of the brotherhood

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The main character finally gets his answer on why Clifton left. As he finds him doing performances instead of staying with the brotherhood.

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Brother Jack lectures the Narrator on discipline. Teaching him that he must keep his temperature I check and to defeat your enemy with words.

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The idea of perception is often brought up mainly when the main character speaks about his perciceved invisibility.  This all comes to a head in chapter 22 where an allegorry for it si in the man that the main character respects in Brother Jacks missing eye.

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The main character moves himself to begin making crowds to protest and riot. Where in the start of the book he was a parroting the idea that the only way to change things was through licking boots.

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Responsibility and the idea that one should stay in their place is a sentiment frequently spoken about by Brother Jack l.Stating that those below the council shouldn't be able to make decisions and that they have no personal responsibility (470)

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This quote shows the underlying problem of systemic racism that is present in American society. Clifton was an innocent black man who was gunned down simply because he was black. This cop didn´t face any consequences for killing what society views as a just a criminal.

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¨That’s my life, telling white folk how to think about the things I know about¨ (89).

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¨That’s my life, telling white folk how to think about the things I know about¨ (89).

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This quote shows how Mr. Bledsoe is a sell out to the whites. Bledsoe explains how playing the role of the subservient, fawning black to powerful white men has enabled him to maintain his own position of power and authority.

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¨Cast-iron figure of a very black, red-lipped and wide-mouthed Negro¨ (319).

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¨Cast-iron figure of a very black, red-lipped and wide-mouthed Negro¨ (319).

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The coin bank is a symbol for the harmful racial stereotypes that the narrator has tried in vain to escape. The bank represents the servile, obsequious slave, eager to provide self-effacing amusement to white people, performing petlike tricks for them.

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¨It was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others, whether for Ras’s or Jack’s¨ (546).

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¨It was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others, whether for Ras’s or Jack’s¨ (546).

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This quote shows the narrator discovering that it was better to follow your own path than to die for other people´s absurd ideals.

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¨After years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled¨ (570).

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¨After years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled¨ (570).

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After experiencing the madness of following other´s ideal the author finally realized he need to go against their corruption and go his own way to achieve his goals.

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This quote is very important because it serves as foreshadowing for later in the book where the grandfathers words come true.

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¨These n****** look like they´re about to pray¨ (27).

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¨These n****** look like they´re about to pray¨ (27).

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This quote shows how society views blacks. They treat them like monkey´s in a zoo rather than actual human beings. They sit and stare as the author tries to live his life.