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Invisible Man1

see the world more as it really is. Experience teaches him to be a better judge. This relates to me, because experience is a major importance in my life. Four years ago, when I first started forensics, I was innocent or inexperienced. But as I started experiencing new techniques of how to present the speech, I learned more and, therefore becoming a better judge. 3.) A lot of blind and half-blind people and animals are shown throughout Invisible Man. For example, Brother Jack, the leader of the Brotherhood, has a glass eye, and throughout his first speech for the Brotherhood in Chapter 16, the narrator refers to black people as one-eyed mice. There is an allusion here to Three Blind Mice. The idea is that black people start life with only one eye, because of their racial situation, and that white people would just as soon have them lose the other eye in fighting one another. Then, the whites blindfold the black boys during the battle royal in the first chapter, so that they strike out blindly at each other. These are just some examples of the imagery of sight and blindness that I found in the novel. Sight is similar to perception or knowledge. Blindness is similar to the lack of these things, with ignorance and stupidity. The imagery of sight and blindness is closely tied to the theme of invisibility that I talked about in the first entry. People are invisible because others do not see them. If you dont see someone, you are blind. Though the narrator can see physically, he is perceptually blind. So there is not always a direct similarity between physical blindness and figurative blindness....

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