Blog #16

The Invisible Man's identity completely changes throughout the novel. He begins at the college by trying his hardest to impress anyone who he considers to be of authority or above him, especially of white race. After he joins the brotherhood he takes what he is told to do, and does it to the best of his ability. While giving his speech, he makes it clear that he does not deliver his speech as he would have before he joined the brotherhood. "Even my technique had been different; no one who had known me at college would have recognized the speech.  But that was as it should have been, for I was someone new." (Ellison, 353). Even the smallest details of how he gives his speeches changes by the time he is in the brotherhood.