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Invisible Man Chapter 1 & 2 Questions

1) Allusion is used in the second paragraph when the narrator alludes back to a time where slavery was prominent, he also talks about his own personal experiences.
2) The quote said to the narrator by his grandfather can be received as him saying that you can solve most problems by being the bigger person and eventually you will prevail.
3) The significance of the narrator viewing of himself as Booker T Washington comes from the prominent roll he played in the African American history and he views himself as someone that important.
4) The narrator felt uncomfortable and out of place in the presence of the naked blonde.
5) This chapter shows the limits of assimilation by showing although the narrator is content amongst the whites, there is still a sense of uncertainty.
Chapter 2
1) The road symbolizes the different paths people tend to go down throughout their lives.
2) The rhetorical purpose of the founders statue was that it send a positive message but wasn’t taken care of.
3) Syntax and diction are used while describing the trustees
4)The allusion used in the initial description of Mr. Norton was when  it alluded to him being a smart intellectual.
5) What made the sleeping farmer the kind white of men the author feared was probably due to the fact that he may have been more brash.
6) Mr. Norton’s enthusiasm for his widow was strange because it was his own daughter.
7) The statement “ I’ve never seen this section before. It’s new territory for me” foreshadowed the situation with Jim.
8)  Juxtaposition is used in the conversation because alothough the narrator did not like the story,  Mr. Norton did.
9) The tone used by Trueblood was nonchalant and unaware of distasteful it was.
10) The irony between Youngblood and his daughter was while the whites praised it, the blacks did not.
11) Trueblood’s wife bought over Aunt Cloe to get her as well as her daughter abortions.
12) Trueblood receives more praise from whites than his own because the whites know that it will not effect them and they probably view them as immoral in private.
13) Mr. Norton gave Trueblood 100$ because he feels bad for him.

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