Ralph Ellisons novel, Invisible Man. Essay -- English Literature

Ralph Ellisons novel, Invisible Man.The unnamed, main character and narrator of Ralph Ellisons novel,Invisible Man, goes by the story being thrown from one ideologyto a nonher in search for a sense of individual truth. The narratorfinds that following an ideology does not help him find individualismwhatsoever but only confines what he can be. The narratorsgrandfather gave him his first and most prominent ideology in which hewere to follow.Son, after Im gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I nevertold you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my borndays, a spy in the enemys country ever since I give up my gun hold inreconstruction. Live with your head in the lions mouth. I want you toovercome em to death with yeses, undermine em with grins, and agreeem to death and destruction, let em swoller you till they vomit orbust wide open.In his last testaments, the narrators grandfather is trying to give aguide to overcoming the white man oppression by pretending to tr ansportattending to the white mans desires. Race st...