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  • Readers get the distinct feeling that Victor's inquisitive nature causes his emotional and physical peril because he cannot balance his intellectual and social interactions.
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      This article portrays the important themes of isolation as well as communiction within Frankenstein. It illustrates the harsh affect of isolation upon Vctor, as well as the monster, and depicts its negative impact upon Victor's relationships. Due to Victor's lack of communication, he is therefore inable to save himself and his family from the monster.
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  • His new embrace of Islam greatly changed his views. When he returned to the United States in 1964, Malcolm X rejected racism of all kinds, spoke of a common bond linking humanity, and conceded that some whites did want to end racism. He formally broke with the Nation of Islam and changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
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      This article illustrates Malcolm's final ability to grasp the truth about his religion which signifies his new identity. Similar to IM, he is able to break from his controlling "brothers" and is advocate his own beliefs, therefore contributing his true beliefs into society.
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  • For Malcolm, this is symbolized by the "conk," a hairstyle that relaxes curly hair so that it straightens and lies flat. Getting his first conk elevates him from the "country Negro" class into the class of the hip blacks who live in the city.
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      This article describes Malcolm's early life as a convict who hustled in the streets and was unaware of the damage he committed to the black race, as a whole. His conk symbolized his integration into white society which he later states is a very bad idea.
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  • Malcolm was a bright student and, in fact, was at the top of his class in junior high school. In the eighth grade, however, one of his favorite teachers told him that his dream of becoming a lawyer was “no realistic goal for a nigger” (Malcolm X 1965, p. 36). At that point he lost interest in formal education and dropped out of school.
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      Malcolm's harsh realization of his surroundings is primarily throughout his early years, as opposed to IM, who is more naive and innocent. However, similar to IM's speech at the Battle Royal Malcolm realizes that blacks are only able to succeed as far as the whites allow them to, disabling their true identity to be seen in society.
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  • In vitriolic public speeches on behalf of the Nation of Islam, he described whites in the United States as devils and called for African Americans to reject any attempt to integrate them into a white racist society.
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      This displays Malcolm's third step in his maturation process because he he learned truths about his new beliefs and tries to integrate these beliefs into society. However, only when he is able to break free from those who control his thoughts is he really able to understand his true role in society.
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  • Based on these, he wrote that he no longer believed that all white people were evil and that he had found the true meaning of the Islamic religion.
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      This article displays Malcolm X's path to the truth and illustrates his final; understanding of his identity, religion, and social responsibility. Therefore, similar to IM he is able to adhere to his social responsibility only once he was able to understand himself.
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  • he saw his task as waking up "dead Negroes" by revealing the truth about America and about themselves.
  • While he was in prison, his life was transformed when he discovered, through the influence of an inmate, the liberating value of education and, through his family, the empowering religious/cultural message of Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam. Both gave him what he did not have: self-respect as a black person.
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      This article illustrates the growth of Malcolm X through his years in prison and portrays his identification of himself, as well as the truth which surrounds him. This article illustrates his willingness to "waken"others around him portraying his social responsibility in society.
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  • In 1964 Malcolm X broke with Elijah Muhammad and converted to Sunni Islam, taking many of his followers with him. The year that followed marked the first time in Malcolm’s career that he was free to think and speak for himself. It was a period of intense change and creativity, during which he abandoned the racist ideology of the Nation of Islam and tentatively began to reach out to whites and to the mainstream civil rights movement.
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      This article portrays Malcolm's gradual journey to maturity through his attempts in fulfilling his "social responsibility" and only truly gaining his identity once he is able to break free from any voice controlling him, other than his own. This is similar to IM's break from the Brotherhood which takes him a stp closer to achieving his true identity.
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  • The novel traces the narrator's experiences from his humiliating teenage participation in a battle royal for the amusement of white southern businessmen through his engagement in—and, significantly, his withdrawal from—the black culture of Harlem. His constant battle is one of and for identity, and it is a battle the narrator shares with millions of Americans in every time and circumstance.
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      This article portrays the clear theme of oppression within Ellison's novel due to the fact that blacks provided a source of entertainment for the whites. Therefore, Ellison's novel clearly illustrates forms of satire which sought to eliminate these oppressive actions in society.
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  • At first Invisible Man, unnamed throughout the novel, wants to walk the narrow way of Booker T. Washington, whose words he speaks at his high school graduation as well as at a smoker for the town's leading white male citizens
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      This portrays the importance of one's own identity through the narrator's narrow-minded vision to be the next Booker T. Washington to his ability to see himself. This transformation allowed for his ability to understand his true identity as well as his social responsibility
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  • Invisible Man carries its hero to the point of such realization, but not beyond. He comes to grips with the nature of reality; identity will be achieved only when that understanding is put to active use
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      This illustrates the narrator's search for his identity throughout the novel and relates to Malcolm X because they both understand the "nature of reality". It also depicts the social responsibility that each one must perform within society
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  • Among his most pivotal early experiences is the death of his grandfather, who first opens the young boy's eyes to the fact that appearances do not always represent reality
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      This ultimately foreshadows the narrator's understanding of the real world around him rather than his initial view, which was obscured due to an artificial coat around society. As a result, similar to Malcolm X, the narrator understands the hole that he, and those around him are in, and knows that he has a social responsibility to help those who are still blind.
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  • He remains underground, and begins to understand that one must remain true to one's self and beliefs and yet find a way to be responsible to the community at large.
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      By being true to themselves, Invisible Man and Malcolm X are both able to understand, not only their true identities, but their social responsibilities. Malcolm responds to this through his work with The Nation of Islam, while Ellison ends the piece displaying the Invisible Man's willingness to accept his social responsibility.
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  • the ten young men are ordered to get into the ring to entertain their white audience by fighting each other, blindfolded
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      This clearly depicts the constant battle between blacks which occurs throughout Invisible Man as well as Malcolm X. The fact that the young men must fight each other under the commands of whites, symbolizes the manipulation that the whites use to keep the blacks obsequious and subservient.
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  • But the death is the ritual death of the hero's career—a death which leads to resurrection and a new identity.
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      This article illustrates the constant search that the main character undergoes in order to obtain his true identity. Similar to Malcolm X, the narrator undergoes several "resurrections" which ultimately lead him to his true self, similar to Malcolm X's experience in jail.
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  • Bootlegging grew into a vast illegal empire, in part, because of widespread bribery
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      This article talks about the evident corruption in society in the early 1900s through "bootlegging" and "bribery". This illustrates the power of these corrupt individuals, represented through Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby. These people, as Fitzgerald illustrates, destroys those underneath them, symbolized by Meyer's cuff of human molars, which also ties into the theme of class distictions, which ultimately undermines the American Dream.
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  • Part of Fitzgerald was realistic, aware of the rot festering beneath the glittering surface of his era.
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      This article reflects the reality of the time period which the author describes as rotting beneath the "glittering surface". This portrays the theme of apperance versus reality in the novel which symbolizes the corruption and greed which lie under the surface of the beutiful city.
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  • In the end, it is inherited wealth and social standing that determine much more of one's destiny than is determined by talent and individual initiative
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      This article illustrates the obvious class barriers within society in the early 1900s and displays the need for one to have money or "wealth" in order to amount to anything, similar to the claims of Virginia Woolf in AROOO. In addition, this article also explains the affect of these social barriers in society which do not allow lower class individuals to gain wealth or happiness, thus exterminating the hope toward the American Dream.
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  • Fitzgerald's book mirrors the headiness, ambition, despair, and disillusionment of America in the 1920s: its ideals lost behind the trappings of class and material success.
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      This quote illustrates the affect of the corrupt and "dissillusioned" state of society in the 1920s on workers and individuals due to their "trappings of class and material success". This clearly hinders individuals of a lower class status from achieving happiness and wealth, or the American Dream, due to the corrupt and greediness of society.
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