![]() The narrator explains that ever since he became invisible he feels alive and believes life otherwise is death.Īs a final point in the "Prologue" the narrator goes through a situation where he's invisibility effectively causes him to snap and nearly almost kill a man. He also goes over how being invisible has its disadvantages as well because of the way " often rather wearing on the nerves," and how it causes a man too "often and doubt if really exist" (Ellison 3-4). The narrator tells of how its can be an advantage when wanting to passively "fight against (the men) without them realizing it" and how he's "been carrying on a fight with Monopolated Light & Power for some time now, using their services and paying them nothing at all, and they don't know it" (Ellison 4-5). He describes to readers that he's not physically invisible yet people refuse to acknowledge his existence "only surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination" (Ellison 3). The white men continued to behave this way for a long time before they decided stop.Įventually many years later the narrator falls victim to becoming figuratively invisible and explains how it is to readers in the "Prologue" by generating an understandable concept. The white men sternly insisted they should get the money yelling "pick it up, goddamnit, pick it up" before trying to force and push them onto the rug (Ellison 21). Before being signaled to grab the money he hears a white man make another racist comment, hearing "these niggers look like they're about to pray " then, after being given the okay the narrator jumps for the first gold coins he sees and suddenly "A hot, violent force tore through body, shake like a wet rat, the rug was electrified" (Ellison 21). ![]() The narrator faces this cruelty again after the fight when the other men and he are award money and riches on a electrical rug. While waiting he hears white men yelling racial slurs and threats involving him and the other black man around him such as "I want to get at that ginger-colored nigger tear him limb from limb," and "let me at those black sonsabitches" (Ellison 17). Before the fight at the Battle Royal the narrator is blindfolded. In the chapter "Battle Royal" the narrator experiences racial cruelty and constructs a vivid picture through words of his experiences to help readers understand exactly what he was going through.
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