https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2021-03-17 16:19:05 UTC 2025-11-11 01:57:37 UTC hello@padlet.com 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321543835 Ambition
"Then the M.C. called to us, 'Come on up here boys and get your money'...I lunged for a yellow coin lying on the blue design of the carpet... The rug was electrified."
-ambition to succeed and grab as many coins as possible from the mat
Disillusionment
"I was overjoyed; I did not even mind when I discovered that the gold pieces I had scrambled for were brass pocket token advertising a certain make of automobile."
-The coins were not worth actual money in the end and he discovered this which were not IM's expectations
Ambition
"It was a scholarship to the state college for Negroes. My eyes filled with tears and I ran awkwardly off the floor... When I reached home everyone was excited."

]]> 2021-03-17 16:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321543835 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321548648 Disillusionment
"'No listen. He believes in you as he believes in the beat of his heart. He believes in that great false wisdom taught slaves and pragmatists alike, that white is right.'"
Disillusionment
"Nothing has meaning. He takes it in but he doesn't digest it. Already he is -- well, bless my soul! Behold! A walking zombie!"]]> 2021-03-17 16:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321548648 1811115 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321587013 Disillusionment
"I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more fimly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding." - Past or future? Veil stands for history either repeating itself or coming to a new light.
Ambition
"But this one i remember: near the end of my junior year i drove him during the week he was on campus. (37)"
"Where shall I drive you, sir? (38)"]]> 2021-03-17 16:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321587013 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321599861 Ambition
"Here she was playing with some silly secret code at the very minute my fate is for the rest of my life was being decided...
Disillusionment
"'Damn what [Mr. Norton] wants,' he said, climbing in the front seat beside me. 'Haven't you the sense God gave a dog?'"]]> 2021-03-17 16:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321599861 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321602089 Disillusionment
"It was when he raised his head that I saw it. For a swift instant, between the gesture and the opaque glitter of his glasses, I saw the blinking of sightless eyes. Homer A. Barbee was blind."

]]> 2021-03-17 16:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321602089 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321603034 Disillusionment
"Please him? And here you are a junior in college! Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie!"

]]> 2021-03-17 16:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321603034 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321605990 Disillusionment
"''That's the idea. Keep it clean,' he said, and directed me to Men's House. I thanked them... The clash between the calm of the rest of the street and the passion of the voice gave the scene a strange out-of-join quality..."
Disillusionment
"I had never seen so many black people... Then at the street intersection I had the shock of seeing a black policeman directing traffic--and there were white drivers in the traffic who obeyed his signals as though it was the most natural thing in the world."]]> 2021-03-17 16:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321605990 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321607700 Ambition
"But this made me homesick and I put the Bible aside. This was New York. I had to get a job and earn money."
Disillusionment
"And here and there I saw Negroes who hurried along with leather pouches strapped to their waists. They reminded me fleetingly of prisoners carrying their leg irons as they escaped from a chain gang."]]> 2021-03-17 16:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321607700 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321608846 Ambition
"I was interviewed by a little droopy-eyed man named Mr. MacDuffy and sent to work for a Mr. Kimbro."
Disillusionment
"'But why this one?' 'Because it smelled the same--' I began. 'Smelled!' he roared. 'Godammit, don't you know the you can't smell shit around all those fumes? Come on to my office!']]> 2021-03-17 16:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321608846 1817361 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321609746 Disillusionment
"I say former because he shall never, under any circumstances, be enrolled as a student here again". 
Disillusionment
"This case represents, my dear Mr. Emerson, one of the rare, dedicate instances in which one for whom we held great expectations has gone grievously astray..."]]> 2021-03-17 16:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321609746 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321653543 Ambition
So that same night I went back to Mary's, where I lived in a small but comfortable room until the ice came. It was a period of quietness. I paid my way with my compensation money and  found living with her pleasant except for her constant talk about leadership and responsibility. ]]> 2021-03-17 16:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1321653543 1794752 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1330804950 Disillusionment
"And look at their possessions all strewn there on the sidewalk. Just look at their possessions in the snow. How old are you sir? I yelled. (277)"]]> 2021-03-19 17:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1330804950 1811115 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1348641818 Disillusionment
"And it went so fast and smoothly that it seemed not to happen to me but to someone who actually bore my new name. I almost laughed into the phone when I heard the director of Men's House address me with profound respect. My new name was getting around. It's very strange, I thought, but things are so unreal for them normally that they believe that to call a thing by name is to make it so. And yet I am what they think I am."  ]]> 2021-03-24 15:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1348641818 1811115 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1368636360 Disillusionment
"I began to accept my past and, as I accepted it, I felt memories welling up within me. It was as though I’d learned suddenly to look around corners; images of past humiliations flickered through my head and I saw that they were more than separate experience. They were me; they defined me." ]]> 2021-03-30 16:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1368636360 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1368649567 Disillusionment
"What are you waiting for me to tell you? ...What good will it do? What if i say this isn't a funeral, that its a holiday celebration, that if you stick around the band will end up playing Damit-the-Hell the funs all over? ... Thats the end in the beginning and theres no encore... GO home, forget him. He's inside the box, newly dead. GO home and dont think about him. He's dead and you've got all you can do to think about you." I paused.

Disillusionment
"When he was alive he was our hope, but why worry over a hope that's dead? So there's only one thing left to tell and I've already told it. His name was Tod Clifton, he believed in the Brotherhood, he aroused our hopes and he died. ]]> 2021-03-30 16:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1368649567 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1368705634 Disillusionment
"Don't overevaluate it," Jack said, quieter now. "The heroes are those
who die. This was nothing -- after it happened. A minor lesson in discipline.
And do you know what discipline is, Brother Personal Responsibility? It's
sacrifice, sacrifice, SACRIFICE!"]]> 2021-03-30 16:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1368705634 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1373985965 Ambition
I searched the coal until I found the folder of matches the men had dropped- .... Next I searched my pocket, finding not even a bill or an advertising folder, or a brotherhood leaflet.... I started with my High school diploma...The next to o was Clifton's doll...It was the anonymous letter, which burned so quickly that as it flamed I hurriedly unfolded another..."

Disillusionment
"I lay the prisoner of a group insisting of Jack and old Emerson and Bledsoe and norton and Ras and the school superintendent and a number of others whom i failed to recognize, but all of whom had run me."

Ambition/Disillusionment
No, I couldn't return to Mary's, or to the campus, or to the brotherhood, or home. I could only move ahead or stay here, underground. So i would stay here until i was chased out. Here, at least, I could try to think things out in peace, or if not in peace, in quiet. I would take up residence underground."]]> 2021-04-01 02:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1373985965 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374197619 By Madalyn D, Michael M, Izzy L, Katie S, and Soloman A]]> 2021-04-01 03:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374197619 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374229944 Throughout the entirety of the book, IM finds ambition while fighting his old identity and creating his new identity. He realizes he is invisible through his ups and downs. He finds the ambition throughout his experiences (going to college, staying with Mary, joining the brotherhood, etc.) and his new character/identity is built upon that but also the unexpected discoveries that he comes across in his life path both throws him for loops and questions his character therefore allowing him to form his new identity. ]]> 2021-04-01 04:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374229944 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374235195 "a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be."]]> 2021-04-01 04:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374235195 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374235629 "a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work."]]> 2021-04-01 04:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374235629 188750 https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374470625 - went to school at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (Ambition) but did not graduate (disillusionment)... but traveled to New York and worked with hope to return to Tuskegee later on (ambition)
-met tons of inspiring literary figures in which pushed him to start publishing (ambition)
-his mother "supported Ralph and his younger brother Herbert by working at a variety of jobs" (ambition)
-father served in the military overseas (Ambition)]]> 2021-04-01 06:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1817361/1aprsud6pnrhi141/wish/1374470625