Wired Magazine Article "Gone"

I was really surprised at how much information people were able to get about the man on the run. He knew exactly how to go wherever he wanted without being detected for a while. People could get information from what soccer team he loved to his last purchase using his credit card. I know he did it for a contest to go hidden but the fact that we have the technology to access that information is incredible. I want to know how it was so easy to get info about Evan Ratliff but it was so hard to find him. How did it become so hard to find a person especially with the type of technology we have now. I honestly believe it is possible to "disappear" in today's world. As long as you are able to not use any cards that people could track you with, and also not talk to anybody that could give away you position. It relates to Into the Wild because of the fact that Evan wanted to create a new life and just like Chris gave up everything and went into a world of being avoided by anybody who he possibly knew. There was a similarity to The Great Gatsby in that Evan went around as James Gatz just like the man from the story. Though the story lines were different, in The Great Gatsby, Jay created a new identity for himself becoming the rich man he was known in the book as. As far as it connects to Invisible Man, there are some such as the man is "invisible" according to people trying to track him down. He also was trying to create a new identity finding who is true self was. I thought it was very shocking that Evan voluntarily "disappeared" and allowed people to access information to try and find him, with a reward of cash for whoever found him. He gave up his life from before to start over and try something new.

IM Prologue

In the photo there is a man sitting in a room with thousands of lights shining. The room is very bright and messy. There are things all around the room with a couple chairs and no windows. Both the walls and the ceiling are covered fully with lights with most on and very bright. Just like in the prologue the man has many wires leading into the basement that are visible when looking at it. The image kind of represents the man's life showing that it is a mess and that he isn't sure of himself. He believes he is invisible so to make up for it he makes the room very bright so that he will be able to be seen.

IM Introduction, Ellison Bio, Ubd Post

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.