The Narrator's Rine-Heart

Sauron in Lord of the Rings, Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet all have one thing in common: they are important to the development of the plot, yet they appear for only a brief moment in the text, if they ever physically make an appearance at all. It is the comical distortion of their nonexistent or brief physical occurrence in the text that demands a closer examination and analysis of the character to the text as a whole. Ralph

expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!” (13). throughout the novel, the search for identity becomes a major aspect for the narrator’s journey to identify who he is in this world. The speaker considers himself to be an “invisible man” but he defines his condition of being invisible due to his race (Kelly). Identity and race

The invisible man begins his journey as a young, naïve student who is bewildered as he experiences his first taste of blindness. The narrator is a gifted, student with a specialty orating speeches; he and a few other boys are invited to a ceremony but are actually used for “white entertainment”. They are forced to look upon an unattainable American dream, represented by a nude woman, “…and in the center, facing us, stood a magnificent blonde—stark naked[…]Had the price of looking been blindness

Figuring out who we are is a task that starts at birth; we learn our name from our parents, and, as we grow, we learn other identifying traits about ourselves such as the color of our skin, hair, and eyes, our general beliefs, what we like and don’t like, etcetera. In psychology, identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person or group; identity can also be defined as one’s name. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a story about a black man’s search for