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When one thinks of Brown verses the Board of Education, or the Black-faced Theatre, one thinks of the segregated South. These images could also remind one of the novel, Invisible Man, written by Ralph Ellison. This novel is a realistic depiction of American bla ....

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.... lowered. Symbolically, Ellison is showing us a sense of blindness, or being invisible to the world. Thus giving the reader the illusion that education is being hidden from the blacks, denying them of a proper education. “I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding” (36). Another point that shows a denial of education to the blacks is how the college gives the students an “education,” but when it all comes down to it, the college has taught the blacks nothing of the real world. The Invisible Man calls t ....