Drugs for Poetry

            According to this video, the Romantics were a movement of writers that embarked in a voyage of discovering the meaning of a life without God; they were quite a radical movement, in my eyes, because of the way through which they first manifested their search for this meaning. By spreading a pamphlet throughout all of the parishes titled “The Importance of Atheism, I think that they were seeking not only to make a statement but also to create a commotion, and this is exactly what thy did.

            We kickoff with a poet who finds a less than conventional way to create his poetry in a faster way. Samuel Taylor Coleridge stumbled upon the drug Opium when sick but found that when he took it he would traveled to a “different level of consciousness an create what same to be one od the best lines ever written in the English language,

            This piece of information, the whole “best lines ever written in the English language” only reinforces the widely known cliché that artists, writers and philosophers are able to do what they do because they drug themselves and go to other realms of consciousness.

Word From a Crazy Man

In the scene of the “Golden Day”, our protagonist runs into some trouble, he has taken Mr. Norton to the most despicable bar in town. He found himself unable to convince the bartender Haley to permit him to take whiskey outside of the bar to feed a sick Mr. Norton waiting in the car and is forced to bring him inside.

Mr. Norton is looking quite dead, which only adds up to our characters nervousness of having one of the universities trustees up to a bar full of crazy war veterans. As the scene develops, our protagonist is aided by the mass of crazy vets in order to get whiskey into Mr. Norton but things go astray and a full on fight begins. Consequently, the protagonist is forced to drag Mr. Norton upstairs to the balcony with the help of a “doctor” and lay him down to rest.

When Mr. Norton finally comes to his senses, they have a very interesting talk. In this talk the doctor has some very meaningful but rude things to say to Mr. Norton in order to make him understand the racial differences that are inside a man’s head. He says:” He believes in you as he believes in the beat of his heart. He believes in that great false wisdom taught slave and pragmatism alike, that white is right.” The point made by the doctor is one that I find quite interesting, he is the first person to state out loud what we all know, that due to the things that whites have been making blacks believe they now consider it to be true. The doctor says, “To you he is a mark on the scorecard of your achievements, a thing and not a man; a child or even less a black amorphous thing. And you, for all your power, are not a man but a God to him.”  With this he is leaving clear how blacks feel toward whites, not only this particular pair, what he is saying is sustained by the thoughts that the protagonist has been having throughout his whole car ride with Mr. Norton about how incredible it was that he would take interest in his life or how they couldn’t treat him like any other man because he was “white and rich”.

This words all came from a man committed to an insane asylum but who claims he isn’t crazy and demonstrates being in control of himself until his sudden outburst. The fact that it takes a crazy man to see the truth and voice it out loud and to an influential white man demonstrates the level of repression that blacks suffer from that it takes craziness for them to understand what is being done to them.

A Personal Point of View

This book is written in first person, the man living through the situation is the same man telling it. this is what makes the readers sympathize with him, what makes us like him. the wording of the book turns this man into an amiable character, a friend if you may, every time he gets hurt we get mad and every time he gets rewarded we are happy for him. I believe that this is the reason why people fall in love with this book, we want to see our friend through this tough times of his life.

Consequently the subject of slavery and racism is one that has marked world history deeply since it began and many people have suffered from it, or their family has suffered from it, but absolutely everyone in the world knows about it. This is why people can relate to it in diferent levles. Some people who have been ensalved or who's family has sffered from slavery will identify with the book and imideatley form an attatchement to it. But, people who only know about slavery from text books will get a fel of what it really feels like through the character in the book "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Like a Bucket of Cold Water

Our character attends the towns meeting and is quite anxious and looking forward to giving his speech to all this important people. Therefore, while looking forward to this opportunity he never takes into account that white men despise black men and like to make fun of and mistreat them. He gets reminded of this cold truth when he is forced to participate in the "battle royal", an activity that consists of throwing several blind folded black men into a ring and make them beet each other up while the white men observe and insult them. It is when he is forced to participate in this violent activity that his tone turns from optimistic to gloomy, he goes from having an intellectual future to being a dog.

Nevertheless, he does as he is told because that is what he has been told to do all his life. But, as the reader we get an inside look into the deception that he feels to see the tables turn on him in such a way, he goes from a hopeful optimistic to a gloomy mistreated dog. 

Straight from the heart

Ralph Ellison's novel "Invisible Man" talks about slavery in its worst moments. The main character is an optimist man, a black man, who is recently graduating school and looking for a place in the world. being the optimist that he is the first few pages of the book are written in an optimistic tone, the character believes that he has struck the chance of his life when he gets invited to give his graduation speech "at a gathering of the leading white citizens". The prospect of being able to give his speech to all of the important men of the town made him feel as though he had cut a break, like he would be able to impress him with his abilities and move up in the world.

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