Invisible Man is a story told through the eyes of the narrator, a Black man struggling in
             a White culture. The narrative starts during his college days where he works hard and
             earns respect from the administration. Dr. Bledsoe, the prominent Black administrator of
             his school, becomes his mentor. Dr. Bledsoe has achieved success in the White culture
             which becomes the goals which the narrator seeks to achieve. The narrator's hard work
             culminates in him being given the privilege of taking Mr. Norton, a White benefactor to
             the school, on a car ride around the college area. After much persuasion and against
             his better judgement, the narrator takes Mr. Norton to a run down Black neighborhood.
             When Dr. Bledsoe found out about the trip the narrator was kicked out of school
             because he showed Mr. Norton anything less than the ideal Black man. The narrator is
             shattered, by having the person he idealizes turn on him. Immediately, he travels to
             New York where he starts his life anew. He joins the Brotherhood, a group striving for
             the betterment of the Black race, an ideal he reveres. Upon arrival in the Brotherhood,
             he meets Brother Tarp and Brother Tod Clifton who give him a chain link and a paper
             doll, respectively. I choose to write about these items because they are symbolic of his
             struggle in his community fighting for the black people and of his struggle within himself
             The narrator works hard for the Brotherhood and his efforts are rewarded by being
             distinguished as the representative of the Harlem district. One of the first people he
             meets is Brother Tarp, a veteran worker in the Harlem district, who gives the narrator
             the chain link he broke nineteen years earlier, while freeing himself from being
             imprisoned. Brother Tarp's imprisonment was for standing up to a White man. He was
             punished for his defiance and attempt to assert his individuality. Imprisonme...