Invisible Man Reading Schedule

for                         chapters             pages
4/2 and 4/3             14-15              296-332
4/6 and 4/7             16-17              333-382
4/8 and 4/9             18-19              383-422
4/10 and 4/13         20-22              423-478
4/14 and 4/15         23-24              479-534
4/16 and 4/17         25-Epilogue    535-581

Peetie Wheatstraw

Pick Poor Robin Clean (1927)

Bledsoe's "favorite spiritual"

Recorded in 1914 by the Tuskegee Institute Singers

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Reverend Homer A. Barbee

Idea: Homer Barbee transforms the Founder into a mythological figure. Recount and analyze his speech to demonstrate the validity of this idea.

Idea: This transformation is designed to have an effect on the students at the college. Explain.

Idea: Barbee's blindness, noticed by the narrator only at the end of the speech, furthers Ellison's use of the motif of blindness and invisibility. What is Ellison suggesting about the the ideology preached by the college and Barbee, especially regarding its effect on the young men and women who attend the college.

AP Exam

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The Vet

1369: "My hole is warm and full of light"

With the exception of the narrator's grandfather who, despite his profound influence, only briefly appears, the vet is the first character who openly states his opposition to the established white power structure and the injustices of society. What is his history? What is suggested by how he now lives? What does he say to both the narrator and Norton? How do his statements inform our understanding of the issues and contradictions the narrator faces? Does the narrator take his words to heart?

The Booker T. Washington Statue at Tuskegee