https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey How does the motif of dream continue throughout the novel. en-us 2017-10-23 19:07:52 UTC 2017-10-27 01:44:36 UTC hello@padlet.com gilliann19143 https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199751938 Throughout the novel, the concept of dreams shows up again and again. In this presentation, we will discuss the effect of this motif on the story and how it connects to the novel as a whole. ]]> 2017-10-23 19:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199751938 gilliann19143 https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753453 The congregation cried "black will make you...or black will un-make you," (10). Implying that being black will either be an impediment or an advantage depending upon how it's utilized. Soon after the dream, the narrator references Louis Armstrong's "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue," and connecting to how black skin will either be a burden or a blessing. 
" 'But what about freedom?' 'Leave me 'lone, boy; my head aches!' " (11). The old woman's inability to answer displays how subjective freedom is to each individual. While collectively, many fight for political or social freedoms, what does freedom mean individually. For instance, for the invisible man his freedom is when he can define himself and find his identify free of any illusions. ]]> 2017-10-23 19:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753453 gilliann19143 https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753488 This dream, in which the IM dreams himself at a circus with his deceased grandfather, who would not laugh at anything, no matter what the clowns did. He told the IM to open his briefcase, in which a document lay that said, "To Whom It May Concern... Keep This N*****-Boy Running." (33) This dream signifies his recognition of how he is being used and manpulated, but he tries to deny it. He wants to believe that good things lie ahead of him, but deep down he recognizes that this dream he has of going to college is unattainable. In his subconcious, he is aware, even at the beginning, that his life can not be the way he wants it to go, that he is chasing a dream and a hope that can never be truly accomplished.]]> 2017-10-23 19:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753488 gilliann19143 https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753524 While drifting in and out of consciousness, the narrator paints a picture of his time in the hospital of the paint factory, after suffering through an explosion and becoming injured. One of the doctors convinces the others to test out a new machine on the narrator. He becomes their prodding stick, something to test out immoral, inhumane, and potentially dangerous treatements on him. They watch him as he goes through these, his body jerking wildly, with them saying, "Look, he's dancing." (237) His invisibility reaches a point, in this dream, where he can no longer fend for himself. Because of his race, he is automatically seen as someone who can be disposed of. Throughout the chapter, he is aware that he is being treated unfairly, but never does anything about it, not mentioning it to others or the director. ]]> 2017-10-23 19:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753524 gilliann19143 https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753559 "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," (569). This group of men is the manifestations of the white power structure prominent in society. Each tries to impose what they imagined the narrator's identity to be yet he rejects it. The invisible man says, "drip-drop upon the water you hear is all the history you've made," (570). This is when the narrator realizes that these men stem and conform to a white man's society. Despite their attempts to change the world, none will truly make a historical difference due to this submission to the American white man's society. ]]> 2017-10-23 19:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753559 gilliann19143 https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753664 While the narrator, is on some level, always aware that the life he is living is only an illusion, he pretends that there is hope for him, so he doesn't do anything about it. He goes along, as a puppet, living in a dream, where his reality is not real. It takes all of his trials throughout the novel for him to recognized and accept his invisibility. ]]> 2017-10-23 19:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gilliann19143/9bd0cyj7poey/wish/199753664