O Brien. Thomas Stavros. John David Williams. Hughes Jr. Winter Griffith. An American History, Vol. Photo albums. As soon as he puts on the glasses, several people mistake the narrator for a man named Rinehart , who is apparently a gambler, pimp, and preacher.
The narrator plans to sabotage the Brotherhood by telling the committee whatever it wants to hear, regardless of the reality. The narrator meets Sybil , a woman who fits the bill, at a Brotherhood party. However, Sybil knows nothing, preferring to use the narrator to play out her fantasy of being raped by a black man. While Sybil is in his apartment, the narrator gets a call that a riot is going on in Harlem.
The narrator rushes uptown to find that Harlem is in chaos. The narrator falls in with a group of looters. The looters soon escalate their violence, burning down their own tenement building to protest the poor living conditions. The narrator runs into Ras the Exhorter again, now dressed as an Abyssinian chieftain. Ras sends his men to try to hang the narrator. When the narrator turns to run, he falls into a manhole.
The white men seal the narrator underground, where the narrator is forced to burn his past possessions to see in the dark. The narrator returns to the present, remarking that he has remained underground since that time.
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Their gentle pressure erases the past few months, when it was daylight until gone ten and filled with tourists and shoppers, as if something good might eventually come out of all this destruction, keeping a tight hold of his throat. Purchase: Full Shorter. Instructors and students now have an easy way to track online quiz scores with the Norton Gradebook. This free student website helps you understand individual works, read and write about literature analytically, and appreciate literary contexts.
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