“Eloquence and the Invisible Man”

Creating a speech to an audience is like creating a musical piece for the audience to take out of the music what they please. Eloquence helps us to compose people but using instruments. As the speaker you are able to tell how the energies of the audience are due to the energies circulating around as the audience becomes one. Compares the audience to how a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery. He uses a technique; call-and-response like jazz composition is also the same. He then goes carries on his speech with a new stature towards the audience making the audience wonder what he would say next. He is able to change his tone of speech making the audience listen carefully as he is goes quieter. He creates ethos in his speech by doing this he is able to relate to his audience on a more closer emotional level. The written composition of the speech is for the audience and how they are able to respond. Ellison made a connection in the way the speech ties into the instrumental musical to re-invent the novel. Henry Louis Gates: "expressive doubleness." Which is reading too much into the book and taking out more than the author anticipated. We read too much between the lines which are usually the blank spaces which we then feel we are able to reconstruct because there are too many questions between these lines.