Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma which on a map of the United States is located in the South. He was being raised in a time of racism and separation. When he began his writing and education it was in a time of a terrible economic downfall. He attended the Tuskegee Institute on a scholarship which allowed him to get an education without spending a penny. He tried to capture the nature of humans in his writing not to focus only on racism in which him being black many people thought he was trying to write about.
The idea for Invisible Man started from when he was recovering from being sick and wrote down the sentence "I am an invisible man." Over the next couple of years he soon was able to bring in more and more ideas to help go with his story and eventually developed it into a novel.
As many people thought Ellison was trying to write about, none really understood his aim. He wasn't trying to cause a stir by bringing up racism and other means of discrimination, but how they impacted African Americans. He wanted to show how human nature shows us to be judgmental, and classify people into different categories. He writes with a powerful tone in which his word use and structure show meaning behind what he is trying to say.
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