Part one of term paper
"Who the hell am I?" (Ellison 386) This question puzzled the , the unidentified, anonymous narrator of Ralph Ellison's acclaimed novel . Throughout the story, the narrator embarks on a mental and physical journey to seek what the narrator believes is "true identity," a belief quite mistaken, for he, although unaware of it, had already been in ...

Part two of term paper
... Throughout his life, he takes on several different identities and none, he thinks, adequately represents his true self, until his final one, as an . The narrator thinks the many identities he possesses does not reflect himself, but he fails to recognize that identity is simply a mirror that reflects the surrounding and the person who looks into it. It is only in this reflection of the immediate surrounding can the viewers relate the narrator's identity to. The viewers see only the part of the narr ...