1. Warming up by gathering background on early 20th century science and socialism
Step 1: Briefly research your topic (Wikipedia works well for most topics).
Step 2: Find one line, paragraph or page from Chapters 11-12 in Invisible Man that takes on new meaning in light of your research.
Step 3: Enlighten the class on your newfound understanding by bringing it into Socratic today.
2. Enjoying a silent Socratic on Chapters 11-12 in Invisible Man
3. Wrapping up with questions, kudos, and epiphanies
HW:
1. For Wednesday:
- Read Chapter 13 (no Socratic ticket needed).
- Prepare for a brief vocabulary quiz.
3. For February 7: Decide what poem you'd like to take on for your poetry project/paper. It needs to be from a different time period than the poem you analyzed first semester. We will have our poem metacognitive on Feb 7.
Opening Question: What are our opinions on the third eye that was burning?
ReplyDeleteCould be the doctors light on his head but it also could have a deeper meaning. It changes from a burning eye to a mirror later. Eye and I: it has to do with identity because the narrator loses that. It could be the doctor burning into his existence trying to figure out who he is. This scene is a lot like the battle royal because he is being “helped” but is electrocuted and used.
Electroconvulsive therapy is a replacement for a lobotomy to change moods and personality. Blocks the electric waves of the frontal lobe. Connection to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
ReplyDelete240-242 they ask questions about Buckeye the rabbit this and he responds negatively to each question except for the Buckeye Question where he laughs inside. Brear rabbit is from African folklore and buckeye the rabbit comes from that folklore. Buck is a stereotypical slur for a large Blackman and that's how the rabbit is portrayed often times. The narrator’s identity is mostly based on stereotypes. All the songs in the book relate back to bold characteristics and animals. Scientific racism is the belief that some people evolved to be ruled and some evolved to rule.
Is there significance to how the narrator does not remember the paint factory? He doesn’t remember himself or the factory and he is surrounded by white. Its like they are whitewashing his past. The work of black people is often times covered by white histories like the black drops in the white paint or the medical experiments that advanced medical science.
ReplyDelete259 imagery of ice and fire (green book). He becomes resentful and angry like the winter and now that it is melted the repression below is ready to burst free and become angrier. He repeated I’m alright several times like he is trying to convince himself that he is actually alright. 243 it is like he is being rebirthed into a new world and a new situation but nothing changes yet. He is not given a name but others give him their name. He knows everyone else but not himself. The water symbolism is again like baptism and rebirth. He doesn’t need a name because he is invisible and has no identity.
ReplyDeleteIs his invisibility a prison or freedom? The people shaped him into who he wanted to be and if they gave him his invisibility it is a prison he is living in. He doesn't have control over how people see him. Dr. Bledsoe lives how other people see him, perhaps the narrator is free because he is living invisible and can not be seen by the people who would give him a false identity. Reference back to the prologue about how he mugged the guy who could not see him. What stood out about responsibility in that passage? The narrator is blinded in the battle royal and did not feel responsible for that but he felt that the man was responsible for being blind to him. At the paint factory, we got to see his emotions and when the explosion happens his new personality was taken away. At the men’s house, he says that the men are like sleepwalkers. His identity becomes the invisible man. He becomes the middle of fighting for his race and being submissive to the white people; he prefers to be his own person on the delicate spectrum. He almost wants to be invisible and blend into the background.
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ReplyDeleteMarry is like Jesus’ mother who takes him in and is a very motherly figure. We do not know much about his family so it is interesting to see someone who is like family to him.
(Wrap up)