For our final assignment in English 253, the major essay, we were assigned to analyze some of the concepts and concerns involved in a novel from the last semester. Our task was to select a topic and develop a deeper understanding of the chosen novel and how the literature involved in the novel is significant. I decided to choose the first available option to complete this essay. Since we should investigate the accuracy of the ways depicted in the chosen novel, I decided to write about the novel The Invisible Man. I chose the novel The Invisible Man because it is literally perfect for this assignment. I fully appreciate that it is extremely difficult for any author to publish a novel that does not deviate from the "real" story referenced. Furthermore, I don't believe that Ellison wrote this novel necessarily with the intention of including exact characteristics of the past, or in an ahistorical way. However, throughout the text of the novel The Invisible Man, there are several examples, references and symbols that Ralph Ellison respectively included on purpose. In this essay, my investigation will demonstrate why, or why not, the real-life social and political ideology involved in the Invisible Man literature is described accurately or inaccurately. I believe there are multiple accounts involved in the text that need to be taken into consideration. consideration before judging whether the novel successfully depicts real-life social and political history. In particular, we must take into account Ralph Ellison's personal life and the background of the novel. In the early 1900s, the Communist Party arose from the Socialist Party in the United States of America. At that time, the people who suffered... middle of paper... the bourgeoisie, should not think they could get away with it... Maybe we cannot destroy the atom, but we can, with a few well-chosen and well-written words, send all that disgusting filth to hell. " These quotes from Ellison demonstrate that he purposely included slight misrepresentations in the novel. The literature involved in the novel is sometimes exaggerated or repetitive, but is used solely to enable us to receive the reading experience intended by Ellison. His main goal was that the reader successfully projected the intended vision through the narrator's story and was able to relate in some way to the story of an African American during the 1930s and 1940s, I believe he successfully accomplished what he was looking for and that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the perfect, brilliant response to the Communist Party's petty betrayal..