Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man II

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Discussion Question 1:

What purpose serves the machine the narrator is hooked up to in chapter eleven?

Discussion Question 2:

What urges the narrator to deliver his speech in the streets of Harlem in chapter thirteen?

Fact:

Ralph Ellison lived great parts of his live in Harlem, New York, and after his death in 1994, a monument showing an "invisible man" was put up in his honor.

 

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Ralph and Fanny Ellison; Source:http://www.read.gov/fiction/images/Ellison_3_large.gif

Ralph Ellison died on April 16, 1994, of pancreatic cancer, and was buried at Trinity Church Cemetery in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. He was survived by his wife, Fanny Ellison, who died on November 19, 2005. After his death, more manuscripts were discovered in his home, resulting in the publication of Flying Home and Other Stories in 1996. In 1999, five years after his death, Ellison's second novel, Juneteenth, was published under the editorship of John F. Callahan. It was a 368-page condensation of more than 2000 pages written by Ellison over a period of forty years. All the manuscripts of this incomplete novel were published collectively on January 26, 2010, by Modern Library, under the title Three Days Before the Shooting.