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    The document contrasts two places represented in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man - the progressive Tuskegee Institute and the surrounding racist locality in Alabama. [1] The narrator tours a patron around the romantic campus but also exposes him to the local areas where incest and mistreatment of veterans takes place. [2] These local areas like Trueblood's farm and the Golden Day bar undermine the mission of Tuskegee Institute and represent the backward racial views of local whites. [3]

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    The document contrasts two places represented in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man - the progressive Tuskegee Institute and the surrounding racist locality in Alabama. [1] The narrator tours a patron around the romantic campus but also exposes him to the local areas where incest and mistreatment of veterans takes place. [2] These local areas like Trueblood's farm and the Golden Day bar undermine the mission of Tuskegee Institute and represent the backward racial views of local whites. [3]

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    The document contrasts two places represented in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man - the progressive Tuskegee Institute and the surrounding racist locality in Alabama. [1] The narrator tours a patron around the romantic campus but also exposes him to the local areas where incest and mistreatment of veterans takes place. [2] These local areas like Trueblood's farm and the Golden Day bar undermine the mission of Tuskegee Institute and represent the backward racial views of local whites. [3]

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    The document contrasts two places represented in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man - the progressive Tuskegee Institute and the surrounding racist locality in Alabama. [1] The narrator tours a patron around the romantic campus but also exposes him to the local areas where incest and mistreatment of veterans takes place. [2] These local areas like Trueblood's farm and the Golden Day bar undermine the mission of Tuskegee Institute and represent the backward racial views of local whites. [3]

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    Ap Literature

    Period 4
    October 22, 2009
    1991 Freewrite AP Lit Essay Question

    1991. Many plays and novels use contrasting places (for example, two countries, two cities or towns, two
    houses, or the land and the sea) to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the
    work. Choose a novel or play that contrasts two such places. Write an essay explaining how the places differ,
    what each place represents, and how their contrast contributes to the meaning of the work.

    1. In TIM, Ralph Ellison nestles the progressive and ideological world of the Tuskegee
    Institute within a historically racist state with that embraces cultural backwardness
    and inequity. The dichotomy between the two worlds become evident through the
    narrator as he tours a fantastical patron, Mr. Norton, out of the romantic campus and
    into the locality where the incestuous Trueblood and maltreated veterans reside.
    2. Jim trueblood
    a. TIM unknowingly reveals to the reader the prurient interests of the local
    whites
    i. Give Trueblood money instead of kicking him out
    ii. Mr. Norton is fascinated (PG 51 –You weren’t harmed?)
    iii. People come to visit him
    b. Another way to cement white superiority
    i. Promote common stereotypes of blacks
    c. Dichotomy of the interests/purpose of the Tuskegee institute who want
    Trueblood out because he is a bad rep of AA race.
    i. TIM’s own disgust and confusion about the white men’s apparent
    support of this incestuous relationship
    ii. Represents the racial malice towards AA- indirectly and directly
    iii. Backwardness of thinking- modern age condemn, before it was okay
    3. Golden Day- bar for AA, supported by Whites, hated by Tuskegee
    a. Once again, the whites support a prostitute house and drinking place, place of
    debauchery
    i. Society generally views as bad,
    ii. (pg 73) “The school had tried to make the Golden Day respectable, but
    he local white folks had a hand it in somehow and they got now
    where”
    b. Deliberate hindrance of forward movement for AA; direct opposition to
    Tuskegee and what it represents.

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