In one episode from this novel, the narrator is tricked into jumping onto an electrified carpet in order to pick up gold coins. The narrator attends a college financed by a man obsessed with his dead daughter, Mr. Norton, and is later kicked out of college by a man who told him he was a "nobody," Dr. Bledsoe. The narrator is repeatedly mistaken for Rinehart, a black man who sacrifices his skin color to fit into white society. The death of Tod Clifton sparks a riot in Harlem which leads one character to rename himself Ras the Destroyer. For 10 p
In one episode from this novel, the narrator is tricked into jumping onto an electrified carpet in order to pick up gold coins. The narrator attends a college financed by a man obsessed with his dead daughter, Mr. Norton, and is later kicked out of college by a man who told him he was a "nobody," Dr. Bledsoe. The narrator is repeatedly mistaken for Rinehart, a black man who sacrifices his skin color to fit into white society. The death of Tod Clifton sparks a riot in Harlem which leads one character to rename himself Ras the Destroyer. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by a nameless black man and written by Ralph Ellison.
In one episode from this novel, the narrator is tricked into jumping onto an electrified carpet in order to pick up gold coins.