Reflecting back on AP Language and Composition

When I first entered your class I didn't know what to expected. At first the work seemed like a lot but when you start doing it there was no problem. The things that I liked the about this year were the satire essays, the synthesis essay, and my favorite was the rhetorical analysis. I felt that they were some of my best things that I did this year. You taught us very well on the synthesis and the rhetorical analysis, but I feel like I wasn't taught enough on the argument essay. That would be one of the only things that I think you should work on is spend enough time on each essay. The imitations didn't really help us with anything, but I did like doing them a lot. I would say that this has been a great year, even though we had some challenges to get through it still was great.

Beyond the Book

7. The question of naming is an important one in Invisible Man and for African-Americans in general in light of our long history of slavery.  The narrator is nameless to his readers; he is renamed by the Brotherhood as slaves were renamed by a new master. In refusing to give us either of his names, what kind of statement is the narrator making about his identity? Assuming that the book ends on a hopeful note, do you think that one day the narrator will have a real name?

~The statement that the narrator is making is that as a black man it doesn't matter what his name was, back during that time, he was still going to be invisible with no identity. I don't think that by the end of the book he will have a name because he still didn't have a real identity to himself.