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Comparison of two speeches made by the Invisible Man. 750-1000

Imogen Roscoe
Mr. Doubt
Block:

In the novel Invisible Man there were many references towards themes, motifs and symbols, whilst reading the second and third speech you have a true insight into how the narrator, also the protagonist of the book was able used and equally intertwined the most important symbols in both speeches. He is able to promote the symbols as acceptance from the audience in his speeches and is able to get them on side by using them, showing the importance of using the right symbols at the right time. The second speech is based on the brother hood and the third speech is the foundation of the eviction. As you go into each speech you can see the repetition of each symbol, by using repetition the protagonist creates a strong sense of emphasis to construct the wanted effect of his audience.
In the two speeches the first symbol of authority is exposed to the audience, “blue steel pistol and blue suits emerge.” This is the first and more important symbol of them all as the audience knows there is a higher power of authority and it also shows that it is connected to the white people and that they have the capability to use force and violence to restore law and order among the blacks. By comparing violence to authority the people know that the people in blue are to be avoided. It also shows a southern connection which the audience knows to be aware of as they have the higher ability than them. The protagonist integrates the police into his speech so that he is able to get the people to look at the police and then to look at the people that can’t afford anything and who have no power over what they do, the narrator knows that is this is in his speech he gets the sympathy vote as he knows who the reader with side with. People who know they have power and abuse it? Or, people who don’t even have a say in their own country?
In the second speech a few sentences appear that read that shared a lot of symbol which were related to the audience. The first sentence read ‘Old cracked dishes and broken-down chairs’ suggesting that they have nothing, not even the basic necessities a human being is entitled too. ‘Yes, yes, yes! Look at that old woman, somebody’s mother, somebody’s grandmother, maybe. We call them ‘Big Mama’ and they spoil us and – you know you remember…Look at her quilts and broken-down shoes. I know she’s somebody’s mother because I saw an old breast pump fall into the snow, and somebody’s grandmother because I saw a card that read ‘Dear Grandma’…’ This sentence is very important and the protagonist uses this to connect and relate to the audience moving them even more to side with him. As you interpret this sentence carefully you unveil a lot of symbols. The symbols were the breast pump and the card that read ‘grandma’ because this shows the reader that the audience is multigenerational and is involving one or two communities. The sentence that follows after this one says ‘…I looked into the basket and I saw some bones, not neck bones, but rib bones, knocking bones…’ showing southern connection with death.
In the third speech the protagonist refers to the audience as being blind ‘They think we’re blind – uncommonly blind. And I don’t wonder. Think about it they’ve disposed us each of one eye from the day we’re born. So now we can only see in straight white lines. We are a nation of one eyes mice…’ This sentence shows us that they have been blinded in one eye from the South and that they can’t see any differently other than in one straight white line, there is no black and white from them it is either one or the other, and in the other eye you see what you believe in and how the community has brought you up.
The symbols that were repeated were the most important ones and the ones that had a bigger impact on the readers and the audience. The narrator cleverly took the most important issues and turned them into symbols and related them to his audience. Power being the bigger issue he was able to connect his symbols with his audience, by association these two issues so closely he was able to accomplish the relationship with the audience that he wanted.