I looked around for a seat away from them, but although the bus was almost empty, only the rear was reserved for us and there was nothing to do but move back with them. Play the game, but …

The station was empty, but the ticket window was open and a porter in a gray uniform was pushing a broom. I bought my ticket and climbed into the bus. There were only two …

One night I accidentally bumped into a man, and perhaps because of the near darkness he saw me and called me an insulting name. I sprang at him, seized his coat lapels and demanded …

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison PASSAGE ONE: Page 23 Everyone fought hysterically. It was complete anarchy. Everybody fought everybody else. No group fought together for long. Two, …

Nov 12, 2020 · I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and …

It was an empty bandage, a bandage properly tied but quite empty. He would have advanced to grasp it, but a touch arrested him, and a voice speaking quite close to him.

Lou Francis: [points to the front seat] Tell him, he's driving! Officer : [ moves up, looks at the empty driver seat ] I said pull over to the... [ stops in a daze, cut to him on the psychiatrist …

In the empty station, the narrator buys a ticket and boards the bus to New York. There are only two other people on the bus, who turn out to be the ex-doctor and an attendant named Mr. …

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Invisible man talking about Clifton. He doesn't have a choice other than being in the brotherhood. He feels that in order to be historically relevant he has to be part of a larger institution. He is …