Ras the Exhorter is a character from the novel Invisible Man who is a passionate speaker and leader of the Harlem community. He is known for his fiery speeches that often incite riots and violence.
When you live in world full of hate and oppression it’s hard to find yourself, now imagine being a black male trying to find yourself in a world with white supremacy and hate within your own race. In his novel, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s narrator is continuously being accosted with finding his identity in his world. The narrator trying to embody and find who he is tied with communism. The Brotherhood can be compared to the Communist Party in the…
Ralph Ellison starts his novel, Invisible Man, with the narrator: Invisible Man, revealing that he is “invisible” and is hibernating underground in his “hole.” Starting in chapter one, the IM returns to the beginning of his story, 20 years earlier. He begins just after high school and jumps to when he was going to give an important speech to the town’s leading white figures. He is made to watch a white stripper dance, forced into a battle royal, and shocked…
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