Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison’s the Invisible Man very powerful story and paints us an incredible picture. His words are very deep and I can see the imagery through out. When I read the prologue in the beginning I was left very confused and did not understand at all what the reading was going to be about. After reading the chapter I can see that it’s the life of the main character later on.
The character in the prologue is so much different then the young men in the first chapter. It sure does make me wonder what happened in his life that made him change so much. He is so bitter here depressed and calls himself invisible. From what I understood he does not like people and is not social at all. He lives in an abandoned basement in a large building. On page 2299 he calls his place a “hole” but yet he defends it and doesn’t want anyone to think that it is a dumb. “There are cold holes and warm holes. Mine is a warm hole.” Makes me wonder why he cares what people think about his “hole” if he claims to be the invisible man. Would you think that when you are THE invisible man you wouldn’t care what others said about your home or place where you choose to live. Also what struck me in this section is the part where he beats up the man in the dark alley who he walked into. He blames the old man and says everything is his fault. And even after he found out he was blind he didn’t seem to care he kept on laughing and even when he saw the newspaper in the morning he continued to blame the blind man. After I had read the chapter I kind of wondered if he was so bitter because of what happened to him when he was invited to give the speech and ended up fighting with the other boys. I think he was so bitter from that event that he never moved passed it and didn’t forgive the white men for all the torture.
The part in the chapter when he was describing their fight it almost made me sick to my stomach. I can just picture it or see it like some movie. The white men drinking and smoking and laughing at the black boys like they were wild animals. They used them for their entertainment and amusement. Unbelievable. The story is fictional; I’m a sure thing like these happened all the time during the slavery years.