So far I am enjoying reading this book.  It’s been an easier read than the other books so far this semester even though it is a lot longer than them.  There are a few reasons why I am enjoying this book so much more than the others.  One is definitely because it is not so far fetched as the others.  This book seems like somewhere out there someone could possibly relate to it, or understand the character.  This was not the case for some others that we have read.  The book starts fast also, it didn’t have a slow start that was dragging on; it picks right up in the first chapter.  It was graphic in the way things were described which made it unpleasant to read at times, but at the same time you feel compelled to keep reading.  The book starts out with the narrator who does not have a name yet, going to make this speech for a group of white people.  Once he arrives he finds out he is being used for other entertainment.  He is blindfolded with a number of other black men put into a boxing ring to fight; he loses in the last round.  The next task is for them to get “coins” off the floor, it is fake money and every time they touch the rug, they are electrocuted.  After this task all the men are given some real money and the narrator is told to give his speech.  During his speech many white men don’t listen to him and he has to swallow all this blood that was in his mouth.   Once all of this is over, it takes you to where he goes to college.  During the chapter, he takes a rich white man, Norton, for a ride, and gets into trouble.  Norton passes out or goes into shock based on information given to him about a man named Jim Trueblood, who impregnated his own daughter.  Norton seems too interested in this.  After this they go to a bar and a veteran who seems to have the only grasp on reality so far in the book, helps them as a riot breaks out.  As the narrator goes back to school, he gets kicked out, and sent to the
New York for a job.  He trusts that the recommendation letters given to him by Bledsoe (the president of the college), when we the reader know that the letters will do him no good. He meets the veteran on the bus because Dr. Bledsoe has sent him to a psychiatric facility.  The next few chapters are about the narrator in the city trying to find a job and what he encounters until he finally lands one. I found multiple parts so far in this book sort of hard to read.  They were graphic and gave way too much information.  I am still enjoying the book though and I am interested in what else is going to happen to the narrator as far as being the Invisible Man and not having a name.