but my speech!
In chapter 1 of Invisible Man , the narrator takes part in a battle royal where he fights his classmates while blindfolded. Afterwards, they try to grab money off of an electrified rug. This entire scene felt very nightmarish and the oddest part about it was how the narrator seemed to accept all that was happening and only cared about the speech he had to give. We found it so odd that his only concern was his speech instead of the fact that he had to suffer through this nightmare of an event. Even while giving his speech, he’s so focused on making it perfect that he just casually swallows his blood. When discussing this chapter in class, I remembered a book that I read last year for 20 th Century Novel, The Metamorphosis . The book opens with the main character, Gregor, waking up as a huge monstrous insect. The odd thing is that his main priority isn’t how to become human again, but instead how is he going to get to work? This book had a very nightmarish aspect to it be...