Be True To Thyself

Part I of Essay
“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.” Many people travel through life on a constant search on who there are and how they fit into this world. Some maneuver through situations and issues that th ....

Part II of Essay
.... doing what was right and was “considered an example of desired conduct—just as [his] grandfather had been”(Ellison 17). Once the invisible man goes off to college he begins to act in a manner to please Mr. Norton. Not only does Mr. Norton not identify with the invisible man racially, he views blacks as “a mark on the scoreboard of [his] achievement”(Ellison 95). Despite these two facts the invisible man allows himself to be a “do boy” by chauffeuring Mr. Norton to slave quarters. It is here that the p ....