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Prologue
We finally begin this story where there's an African-American male who is tired and fed up with the environment he's a part of, retrospect to the segregation days prior to the 1960s. He acts like no one sees him or notices him; as if he were a ghost. He's in a state of isolation because of his color of his skin; basically everybody bypasses him as a nonentity and this guy's had enough. The narrator is tired of the oppression he's up against and he wants to really stick it to the man. -
Chapter 1
The 1999 movie "Fight Club" with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton is pretty similar to this chapter. The narrator and other people are duking it out; trying to see who wins and triumphs. The thing is that after all the melee has been done, there are white men that have an area that's a blanket with money, gold, jewelry, the whole nine. Thing is that they don't know that the blanket that has the valuebles is rigged, so when these guys are sweating, they're affected even more with the electricity. -
Chapter 2
The narrator has met up with a person by the name of Jim Trueblood, who has a dream while he was sleeping with his wife and daughter; he has a strange relationship with his daughter. He has a dream and as he wakes up from it, he%u2019s actually having sex with the daughter. Which is not right at all; having the types of fantasies he would have of his daughter%u2019s pretty creepy and unethical. And with the founder of the college the narrator goes to, Mr. Norton, he shares the same sort of feeling. -
Chapter 3
This chapter was pretty hectic; a lot of was going on. The narrator was driving Mr. Norton around and they stumbled onto a bar known as the "Golden Day". Mr. Norton is ill for some strange reason and he's wanting a "stimulant"; which is whiskey for him. There's all these different types of characters who are strange to a high level, kind of like an asylum, if you will. A couple women talking explicitly about random things which was pretty odd; wouldn't want to be near that kind of place. -
Chapter 4
The narrator in this chapter is very nervous and worried about meeting with Dr. Bledsoe. That%u2019s the vibe I got from the narrator nearly throughout the chapter. He%u2019s still with Mr. Norton, the founder of the Negro college the narrator attends, and he%u2019s wanting to explain how much the school meant to him. -
Chapter 5
This was a very interesting chapter; a man who was a preacher named %u201CHomer A. Barbie%u201D who was actually found out in the end of the chapter that he%u2019s blind, was making an profound speech. The articulate story told by the man was poignant; the narrator explained how others were felt by the whole mood throughout the lucidity. There was one part of the speech where the speaker talks about how a figure like God has impacted an adult's life trying to pass it on, etc. That really caught my attention. -
Chapter 6
I feel the climax in the chapter arrive when the narrator meets up with Dr. Bledsoe to discuss why he took Mr. Norton to the %u201Cslave quarters%u201D. Dr. Bledsoe then queries the narrator upon why he didn%u2019t lie to Norton; the %u201Cwhite man%u201D, and why the narrator should act accountable for his actions, etc. Later it all went bad once the narrator was taken aback whenever Dr. Bledsoe called him the N-word. [I didn%u2019t think that was coming, as well did he.] So it results in the narrator being expelled.
