Part one of term paper
When one thinks of Brown verses the Board of Education, or the Black-faced Theatre, one thinks of the segregated South. These images could also remind one of the novel, Invisible Man, written by Ralph Ellison. This novel is a realistic depiction of American black life during the 1800s. It can be seen in many ways throughout the novel. On ...

Part two of term paper
... then gave them a poor education. In the novel, Ellison conveys this to us in many ways. At the Invisible Man’s college campus, he describes to the reader a statue of Booker T. Washington, the founder of the school, which shows Washington lifting a veil from a kneeling slave. The Invisible Man wonders if the veil is really being lifted or is the veil being lowered. Symbolically, Ellison is showing us a sense of blindness, or being invisible to the world. Thus giving the reader the illusion th ...