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Ralph Ellison and Invisible Man
Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Lewis Ellison, his father, named his son after the famous American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. ... Ellisons mother, Ida Ellison, supported herself and her children by working as a domestic. ... While growing up, Ellison began performing on the trumpet during high school years. ... With the help of a music scholarship, Ellison studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama (1933-1936). ... Ellison dropped out to pursue a career in the visual arts. Ellison moved to New York City to study sculpture, but again Ellison abandoned his plans when a chance meeting with Langston Hughes and Richard Wright led him to join Federal Writers Project. ... During WW II Ellison served from 1943 to 1945 in the Merchant Marines as a cook, and wrote the first line of Invisible Man after the war ended. The early version started with a story about a black American pilot who is in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, but soon Ellison found a more complex theme. After his famous novel, Ellison published two collections of essays. ... Ellison received in 1985 National Medal of Arts for Invisible Man and for his teaching at numerous universities.
Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” as told by the “invisible man” himself, is the story of a man’s quest to separate his beliefs and values from those being pressed upon him. ... The narrator is a well-educated black man who has been kicked out of his college, and lied to by the school officials.
Approximate Word count = 1299
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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