The Eviction: Undocumented Colombians carry furniture (Invisible Man Ch. 13)

[Fiona Shnapple]

Meanwhile, the police arrive and accuse the narrator of interfering
with the eviction, but a white girl helps him escape by suggesting
that he run across the apartment rooftops. After narrowly escaping the
police, the narrator encounters a man who introduces himself as
Brother Jack. After telling the narrator how much he admired his
speech at the eviction, Brother Jack invites the narrator to accompany
him to a nearby diner. There, Brother Jack invites the narrator to
join the Brotherhood. Skeptical, the narrator refuses and heads back
to Mary's, but he accepts a slip of paper containing Brother Jack's
name and address.

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/i/invisible-man/summary-and-analysis/chapter-13

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why undocumented Colombians? Is that why the Unions have put up the
> rat? Who are the rats that are welcome? They want the job? Or do the
> unions want the Gestapo work? Are the Colombians removing doors the
> organized carpenters are contracted to remove? Who is not collecting
> the garbage? Union sanitation workers? The landlords are Jewish, so is
> P joaking, here? The 80s pop seems a joak.
>
> This ain't Malamud's The Tenants by a long shot. And it sure ain't
> that famous eviction in IM, ch. 13.
>
>
> Nobody's right if everybody's "wrong" or something like that.
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