lundi 30 août 2010

Was I satisfied with the book I chose?

I was not completely satisfied with the book I read. There was rarely a bright side to the invisble man's life, and that made the novel pretty much depressing. I was looking forward to something good happening in the narrator's life, but I did not turn out as I expected. I also hate the fact that the invisible man's name is never revealed! Although I did like how the author relates the narrator's invisibility to people's unwillingness to notice him and the stereotypes he is associated to. One of the main themes (also universal) in the novel is racism. Because of his dark color, the narrator is disregarded, and from there arouses his feeling of invisibility. The main character goes through a lot of mishaps throughout his lifetime. At the end of the novel, he looks back at his life and all the problems he had come across, and he decides to emerge back into life. He thinks that his invisibility during that whole time was useless, and therefore, decides to lead his own life and not change for anyone. By telling his story, the invisible man is able to express his feelings and thoughts. In other words, telling his story has enabled him to remove the veil he once wore. The story did not exactly end the way I expected it to, or wanted it to, but the invisible man does however become visible to his self.

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