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.
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