Vision by susie hoffmann https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12 visibility and invisibility throughout the novel "The Invisible Man" en-us 2017-10-23 15:57:34 UTC 2017-10-24 20:27:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 2 susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199736522 “It’s so long ago and far away that here in my invisibility I wonder if it happened at all. Then in my mind’s eye I see the bronze statue of the college founder, the cold father symbol, his hands outstretched in the breathtaking gesture of lifting a veil that flutters in hard, metallic folds above the face of a kneeling slave” (36). 


]]> 2017-10-23 18:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199736522 Chapter 1 susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737070 “All ten of us climbed under the ropes and allowed ourselves to be blindfolded with broad bands of white cloth” (20). ]]> 2017-10-23 18:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737070 Chapter 9 susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737306 When finally reading the letter Dr. Bledsoe commanded the narrator to never look at after expelling him from his university, the letter said, “it is to the best interests of the college that this young man have no knowledge or the finality of his expulsion… It is to the best interests… that he continue undisturbed in these vain hopes while remaining as far as possible from our midst” (191).
*This exemplified how the narrator’s blind trust, or lack of vision towards men he respected such as Bledsoe ultimately hurt him, keeping him eternally chasing a dream that could never be realized. *


]]> 2017-10-23 18:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737306 Effect susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737739  Vision allows the narrator to see where he belongs in this world. His “visions” conclude of wanting to stay respectful to please those around him, while as he later find out how is he continuously used his new vision is to act out and make a change. His lack of vision serves to create illusions toward how he’s presented in life and causes him to blindly trust others, but he later becomes disillusioned when he learns the darker truths of life.


]]> 2017-10-23 18:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737739 Thematic Implications susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737796 There are implications regarding how we see people and causes and how we often blind ourselves to the problems of certain organizations in favor of glorifying and idealizing them. As dreams are brought into the novel, for example the narrator's grandpa, his obstacles become more prevalent. Another theme relating to vision is power. For instance, the narrator desires success from a young age, such as acquiring his scholarship to college and excelling at his university. He wants power, but his gullibility to the words of men he has been raised to look up to often result in his own failure.


]]> 2017-10-23 18:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199737796 Connecting to the novel susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199738180 Vision becomes an important symbol right from the start of the novel in the prologue when the narrator mentions his invisibility. As the novel continues, the narrator struggles with his image and how he wants to present himself. It also contributes to him being looked down upon by leaders of society and how he ignores problems in the communities (such as in the high school fight and the all-black college) because he is too invested in them emotionally to allow himself to think of them as flawed. 


]]> 2017-10-23 18:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199738180 Chapter 1 susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199739059 “All ten of [the men] climbed under the ropes and allowed [themselves] to be blindfolded with broad bands of white cloth” (20). ]]> 2017-10-23 18:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199739059 Chapter 1 susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199739266 “Blindfolded, I could no longer control my motions. I had no dignity. I stumbled about like a baby or a drunken man” (22).
*Because the narrator couldn’t see, he was helpless in defending himself, physically and mentally. He felt weak and powerless, showing how his loss of vision damaged his sense of self.*


]]> 2017-10-23 18:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199739266 Chapter 2 susanh19886 https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199739621 “Above the face of a kneeling slave; and I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding” (36). 
*Although the narrator had been studying at the university in hopes of chasing his dreams to success, looking back, he began considering that the university’s mission may not have been to improve the position of black people in society, but to blind them as an effort to “keep them in their place”. In this scene, vision is either being used as a device of hope, or exactly the opposite.*]]> 2017-10-23 18:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/susanh19886/iv562n0w9o12/wish/199739621