Invisible Man Chapters 4,5,& 6

Chapter 4
1. Because of the previous events, the narrator sees the college campus just as he saw the road. What he once saw as beautiful was now threatening.
2. The narrator blames Trueblood for the entire series of events, and he blames the people at Golden Day for causing more traumatic events for Mr. Norton.
3. Old plantation manor houses were owned by rich white people but ran by slaves. The college is similar to one because the trustees are highly viewed there yet the school is for black people.
4. Dr. Bledsoe achieved power by gaining acceptance from white people. He did not completely disregard black people, but he was not largely focused on getting their acceptance.
5. The mirror symbolizes the alter ego Dr. Bledsoe and the narrator puts on for white people. They hide their inner feelings and focus only on making Mr. Norton and other white people happy. The aquarium symbolizes the progress that black people had made during that time. Though Dr. Bledsoe was higher classed, he still was seen as a servant to white people.

Chapter 5
1. The rhetorical argument is based off of ethos because the narrator portrays the trustees, who are all wealthy white men, as people who see the black students as items on display because they have some form of value.
2. The tone for the two paragraphs is pessimistic because the narrator degrades everything he explains with sarcasm.
3. The italicized passage shows the narrator's thoughts about the situation in the present time. He is reflecting on his mistakes while telling the story of his past.
4. The narrator stated that though Dr. Bledsoe was smaller than the trustees by rank, he was bigger than them by presence and reputation.
5. Rev. Barbee alludes back to slavery times and the struggles encountered.
6. The Founder's death was seen "as a birth" because his school and teachings began to flourish.
7. The word black symbolizes the mood during the Founder's death, the mood of the narrator at the time, and the mood of the story altogether. There are many dark moments described during the story. Black is more about the feeling of darkness rather than actual skin color.
8. Rev. Barbee's blindness portrays ethos because he has experienced a lot of traumatic and sad things and now can no longer see.
8. The narrator sees a mockingbird perched on the Founder statue and a beautiful sunset while leaving the chapel.

Chapter 6
1. Dr. Bledsoe's posture is relaxed when the narrator first enters the meeting.
2. Dr. Bledsoe is so angry because Trueblood's situation and Golden Day made black people look bad as a whole; it made Bledsoe seem inferior.
3. Just like the narrator's grandfather, Bledsoe caters to the white people and in the end tries to become one of them.
4. The narrator emphasizes his shock of being called a nigger by Bledsoe by continuously referring to the word as "that".
5. The narrator stated that during the handshake Bledsoe's hand was strangely limp which shows that he knows the narrator will have a hard journey.