A Reading Of The Invisible Man With Modernist Literacy Techniques

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in the present tense with ?I am an invisible Man? Yet two paragraphs down the lines, He can shift to the past tense when He begins reflecting on the ?Night he accidentally bumped into a Man? and preceded to assault him for his lack of control. (Ellison Pg 3,4). We acknowledge flashback as a literally style that was also used by the traditional writers, but there is a huge difference in the way the modernist use it, looking at what the narrator does, he gets into the past without any proper introduction and gets out of it without the knowledge of the reader.

Absurdity; which is the quality or state of being ridiculous or state of or widely unreasonable: what we notice to be absurd in the first place is the fact that, the narrator's name is not known, we read the novel all to end without having a clue on how the narrator is called (nothing about his origin). Secondly, the narrator describes his home; he lives in abnormal circumstances. ?The point now is that I found a home ? or ...

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