Chapter+5-10+(Angela)

DISCUSSION LEADER 1.) What is your opinion on the veterians advice " hide himself from white people, from authority, from the man who is pulling his strings"? 2.) What was Bledsoe implying about whit people and their orders? 3.)Emerson went out of his way to get the invisble man a job whay was the invisble mad when he left? 4.)what is the invisible man's charater say about him? 5.)Why doen't the auther give the narrater/invisible man a name?

SUMMARIZER The invisible mand take norton to the slave cabins which really angers bledsoe. Bledsoe started yelling at him and even when the invisible man said that norton wanted to go their bledsoe protested that white people make foolish orders and bledsoe ugrues the invisible man to lie next time. Bledsoe tells the invisible man to be more disciplined. Bledsoe tells him to go to New York for the summer and work to earn his year’s tuition. Bledsoe hints that if he does well he will earn the right to return to school. He offers to send letters of recommendation to some of the trustees to ensure that the narrator gets work. The next day, the invisible man retrieves seven sealed letters and assures Bledsoe that he doesn’t resent his punishment. Bledsoe praises his attitude, but the invisible man remains haunted by his grandfather’s prophetic dying words. On the bus to New York, the invisible man makes a veteran who mocks Mr. Norton and the college. The invisible man cannot believe that Bledsoe could have anything to do with the transfer, but the veteran winks and tells him to learn to see under the surface of things. He tells the invisible to hide himself from white people, from authority, from the man who is pulling his strings. Crenshaw, the veteran’s attendant, tells him that he talks too much. The veteran replies that he verbalizes things that most men only feel. Before switching to another bus, the veteran advises the narrator to serve as his own father. The invisible man arrives in New York and gazes with astonishment at a black officer directing white drivers in the street. The invisible man feels as though a riot might erupt at any minute. He quickly finds a place called the Men’s House and takes a room. Over the next few days, the invisible man delivers all of the letters of recommendation that Bledsoe gave him except for one, which is addressed to a Mr. Emerson. A week passes, but he receives no response. He tries to telephone the addressees, all trustees of the college, only to receive polite refusals from their secretaries. His money is running out, and he begins to entertain vague doubts about Bledsoe’s motives. The invisible man sets out to deliver his last letter and meets a man named Peter Wheatstraw, who speaks in a black dialectical banter and recognizes the invisible man’s Southern roots. Wheatstraw describes Harlem as a bear’s den, which reminds the invisible man of the folk stories of Jack the Rabbit and Jack the Bear. The invisible man stops for breakfast at a deli. The waiter says he looks like he would enjoy the special: pork chops, grits, eggs, hot biscuits, and coffee. Insulted by the waiter’s stereotyping, the invisible man orders orange juice, toast, and coffee. The invisible man arrives at Mr. Emerson’s office. He meets Emerson’s son, a nervous little man. The son takes the letter and goes off to read it, only to return with a vaguely disturbed expression, chattering about his analyst and about injustice. Finally, the son allows the narrator to read the letter: Bledsoe has told each of the addressees that the narrator has earned permanent expulsion and that Bledsoe had to send him away under false pretenses in order to protect the college; Bledsoe requests that the narrator be allowed to “continue undisturbed in vain hopes while remaining as far as possible from our midst.” Emerson says that his father is a strict, unforgiving man and that he will not help the invisible man, but he offers to secure the invisible man a job at the Liberty Paints plant. The invisible man leaves the office full of anger and a desire for revenge. He imagines Bledsoe requesting that Emerson “hope the bearer of this letter to death and keep him running.” He calls the plant and is told to report to work the next morning.