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When we compare the voice and actions of the narrator in the prologue to the voice and actions of the narrator in the first three chapters, we see there is a vicious change that occurs from the time in between the two sections of the novel. Our narrator is a nameless man who calls himself invisible due to the fact that he cannot accomplish recognition; but also is quick to call the world around him blind. The narrator desires recognition of his individuality rather than recognition based on these stereotypes. The blindness of others stem from an inability to see the narrator without imposing these racial identities on him. The narrator possesses an internal conflict between how others perceive him and how he perceives himself. From this comparison, we can surmise the hardships that must have come to be to transform our protagonist from a promising youth to a man of despair and isolation from all that is around him. There are many immediate characterizations we can pin to our protagonist. He is a man that has grown up submitting to the will of others to accomplish his goals, as seen in the first chapter, as he delivers his speech at his high school graduation. In this event, we see our narrator play off of the will of the white board members, including taking part in a boxing match, to please them. During his speech, he corrects himself after calling blacks and whites equal, much to the delight of the school board. After all is said and done, however, our narrator earns a scholarship to an all black high school, which is food for the idea of submission his white superiors. The narrator mocks his own actions during his recounting of the event, much to prove how much change and self realization our narrator finds during the course of the novel.
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