February+24-+24-Epilogue+of+Invisible+Man-Brett+Gershkowitz


 * Will Invisible Man find himself? **

Invisible Man is still trying to find himself, he is taking on other identities such as Rinehart, a doctor because of briefcase and others see him as just a member of the brotherhood.

After all that has happened before with white women, he feels a connection. Sybil, a desperate white wife of a brotherhood member is introduced in this chapter. Sybil throws herself at IM, she is a contrast between the other two women he encounters (the stripper and the other white women). This time around IM is drunk and more sarcastic with Sybil. He says terrible  things which eggs her on such as “I rapes real good when I am drunk” (524). The way he acts towards her shows that he is evolving because he is not conflicted. He remembers "the game" and that he is being manipulated.  Sybil and invisible man are similar because they both have limited rights. Ellison is trying to show that IM is finding his desperate and dark humor, in the part where he writes

"Sybil, You were raped  by  Santa Claus  Suprise".

In the end of Chapter 24, IM is blindly running. He is trying to find his identity. He goes under a bridge and he talks about pigeons pooping on him.  the pigeon droppings symbolizes all the crap  he has been through in his life, this is seen as irony

Invisible Man's dark humor <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> takes a toll in the end of Chapter 24 and into Chapter 25 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">IM takes control over pervese laughter in chapter 25 when the <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">children <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> passed by and when the Women handed out beer. He also laughs when he has fallen into the man hole.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">On 553 in the middle of the page “it was not suicide it was murder” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> later on he says to Ras and his crew that they were to kill each other

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> in warfare, one of the best strategies is to fight amongst themselves <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> brotherhoods plan all along was to get blacks to destroy blacks, seeing through the veil and realizing that he has been an <span style="color: #c3b844; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">instrument

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> organized crime when they started dealing drugs, go into other neighborhoods so others would have problems than their own.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b64646; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> CLIMAX OF INVISIBLE MAN

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">In the midst of riot he realizes his true identity. IM ran into to two white men-having fun by beating up black people, he was trying to run away from them, he steps back and falls into a man hole. The white men lit matches and threw them into the hole. They put the cover on, now he is actually <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">invisible <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">in the hole. He realizes that that is what his life has been like that all along. Invisible Man’s life has been in a hole his whole life, people stomp on his dreams: communist shine the light on him, he was munipulated by the brotherhood and he realizes that Brother Jack has identical //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00b9ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">handwriting //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> as the note from Bledsoe and Emerson and the threatening letter. With the matches, IM burns everything that represents his blindness from before

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">When he is in the man hole, he has a fever dream of his own castration, the floor turned to sand. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> in his dream. Brother Jack, Emerson, Bledsoe, Norton, Ras and the school superintendent and others have unmaned him by freeing him of his illusions. As he sees his manhood hanging from a bridge, he is says **//<span style="color: #f32828; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">SCREW //**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> you. The system of racism works because of the black men, they take away his future and Break the cycle. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> "White mans success is built off of black mans back"

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">And the next scribe is...Emily Magee!