After reading it once, listen to it here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdGdtRmF6J98eJiv0UfDFYTFRBPk7kKWh
Next, we will answer text dependent questions found here:
Text
Dependent Questions—Prologue to The Invisible Man
1.
In what ways are
you invisible? List was you are invisible to peers, teachers, people…..
2.
Why does the
author need to clarify that he isn’t a spook?
3.
Why might people
refuse to see someone?
4.
Why would someone
say, “I might even be said to possess a mind?”
5.
What does it mean
to be seen?
6.
How might it feel
to be “unseen”? List four adjectives that might describe the feeling.
7.
Whose fault is it
that the narrator is invisible? Defend your response with a sentences or
evidence taken from the text.
8.
What can we infer
about the blond man who “still uttered insults though his lips were frothy with
blood”?
9.
Explain the irony
of the Daily News reporting of the incident.
10. Why might rates for electricity been so expensive for
the narrator?
11. Describe the invisible man’s
“hole.” What items in or aspects of his hole might be metaphoric and
what might they mean?
12. Why does the narrator label himself “Jack the Bear”
and how does this idea of his current existence give significance to the rest
of his narrative?
13. Find as many oxymorons or paradoxes as you can in the
prologue. Consider especially the fact
that the Invisible Man needs light, as well as his statement that Broadway and
the Empire State Building are “the darkest spots in our culture.” What is the meaning and/or significance of
each paradox that you have identified?
(If you struggle to interpret the individual paradoxes, try to discuss
the overall significance of paradox in the prologue.)
14. What role does paradox in general play in the
invisible man’s existence?
15.
Is
the invisible man’s mode of existence heroic? Why or why not?
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