Power And Discrimination In Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

From the start the novel The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison has presented many stereotypical themes. Most of which were based off the invisible man’s grandfather advice. [prepositional phrase] In the novel, Ellison developed the themes of power and discrimination.
[infinitive] To start the narrator recalls the advice of his grandfather, creating a theme of power. His grandfather advised him to “live with [his] head in the lion’s mouth” (Ellison 16), illustrating the problems and benefits a black man has in a white society. The lion symbolizes white people as being powerful and superior. [subordinate clause] While the head(s), symbolizes black people in the south carefully living in a white society. Thus, developing the narrator's reason of actions, through the occurrence of this theme and advice. [subordinate clause] Though the narrator’s grandfather is a recalled memory, the absence of

This theme is most stereotypical in the development of the narrator’s feelings and experiences in the South. The narrator describes and explains his experiences while living in a white community, and how they change when he is moved to the North. From how he was treated to how he was looked at, the changes from the South and North impacted the narrator’s views. His grandfather’s role and advice reoccurs all throughout the remaining chapters, guiding him through his troubles and challenges of discrimination while in the North and South. All to which helped him realize how different he will always be. The narrator was “no longer…ashamed of the things [he] had always loved” (Ellison 266) and thought “how much had [he] lost by trying to do only what was expected of [him] instead of what [he] had wished to do?”(Ellison 266). He remembered his grandfather telling him that being a black man is not easy, and to always be greater and not let whites rip him of his