*What is the significance of the wide range of professions that the insane men at the Golden Day used to practice?
*How do the apocalyptic ravings of one of the patients serve to foreshadow the future?
*Why do the patients find that kicking Supercargo is therapeutic?
*Why does the veteran call the narrator invisible?
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I believe the significance of the wide range of professions is to prove that anyone can turn out to be like the men at the Golden Day. The professions all insitigate that the men went through some sort of schooling, just like the narrator. Maybe the men at the Golden Day could be a representation of the narrator. The narrator has a long time to decide which path he is going to take, and all of these insane men are his choices.
I think that the patients find kicking supercargo theraputic because it allows them to release their anger and frustration. Maybe the patients have suffered a lot in their lifetime and have been through great turmoil and need a way to release their anger. Since all of them were black they probably have been poorly treated all their life and have a lot of anger locked up inside of them. I also, think that it was nice of the narrator to help take care of Norton when he passed out in the Golden Day because Norton is white and the whites don't treat the balcks very well.
The wide range of professions at the Golden Day shows that troubled times can drive anyone insane. It shows when fortune is taken away all people end up in the same low place. It also shows that no one is immune to sins like sex and drinking no matter how high their position in life. I think these details are related to how the Invisible Man started high in life and college and ends up in his "hole".
The wide range shows that even tho the men made many choices and sacrifices in an attempt to gain control of their fate they all found the same end game so to speak.
The patrons of the Golden Day see Supercargo(I wish i had a name like that) is their oppressor and that by taking a good kick or two at him they are taking a good kick at the problems in their life and that they are taking some control back in their life
I'm not sure if we had to leave comments on the prompts already written or if we could write our own but i feel the vet's rant on page 73 was at the very least ominous. I found it interesting how he took some of thier somewhat positive qualities and showed the darker motives to these ideas
I also think the variety of the professions added to the chaos. I really enjoyed reading this chapter and thought it was much less bland than the others. The chaotic bar fight showed us how the narrator acted under pressure and let the readers know more about his feelings toward the importance of his future in the school. By showing his devotion to the safety of Mr. Norton, we can relize that his education is the most important aspect in his life. And Supercargo is a name that only a few can pull off....including Shane
At first I could not figure out what The Golden Day was. I thought it was an insane asylum at first, because all of the people there seem crazy, but I think that it is just a bar that the patients are allowed to come visit. You can tell that the narrator is very concerned about his job and school, because he cares greatly about Mr. Norton. He frantically tries to get help for him, even having the patients help him. I think that the narrator is worried that if something happens to Mr. Norton, and the president of the college finds out, then he will get fired from his job, and possibly get kicked out of the college, which he greatly fears happening. I wonder why Mr. Norton got so sick. It could have been from the heat, but I think that it had to do with the story that Trueblood told.
I think the patients kick Supercargo because he is there to maintain order and in a way he has to watch over them and maybe it reminds them of how they were in the same position with white people looking down on them and all the built up rage against their opressors caused the backlash against Supercargo. I also had no idea what the Golden Day was, like Kelsey and I had no idea why the people there were called patients until I read her comment about them being patients at the insane asylum which makes a lot of sense.
I believe that maybe the men at the Golden Day are a forshadow for how the narrator might be when he's older.
i believe the find kicking Supercargo a way of gettin rid of frustrating. A way of taking out they're problems and anger out on someone else. They see him as someone who is there to keep them down and to rule them, kind of like how the whites had done to the slaved. so its like a long time built up anger situation.
the crazy bar fight was kind of fun to read about.
The patients find that kicking Supercargo is therapeutic because it lets them get all of their anger out. The attendant comes out drunk and starts yelling at them all. He is rude and it sounds like he treats them like dirt all the time. After Supercargo kicks some of the patients, they get him back and enjoy it. Even the girls and employees at the bar want Supercargo to pay for how he acts.
I believe the man at the Golden Day bar calls the narrator invisible because he has no "dress up" profession. The narrator is still attending college and has no profession other than attending school. I believe the narrator has no name so far in the novel because it helps to demonstrate his invisibility. A agree with ashley that it shows when fortune is taken aways you can end up anywhere in life. The narrator goes to the greatest black college and ends up in an old basement "hole."
The veteran in the Golden Day brings up again how people can be so blind to certain things. He tells Mr. Norton that he does not see the narrator as a intelligent black man making his way threw college but just another mark for the achievement for him. Then the veteran goes on to say that the even the narrator thinks of Mr. Norton as a God not a man just because he is rich and white.
The significance of the wide range of pofessions at the Golden Day is that to show that any man can turn out like the men at the Golden Day. It is obvious that they have some sort of schooling background. Another significance is that because of the hard times the wide variety of professions here show that insanity can happen to any man when times are troubled and things arent the way they are or the men want them to be.
The "bar scene" at the Golden Day was a pretty interesting twist thrown into "Invisible Man" because it was unexpected, and showed so much about how the vets felt against the whites. It seemed that they disliked the idea of oppresion of any kind and that when the narrator came in demanding some liquor for Mr. Norton, a rich white man, that the idea of a white man (even if he was ill) was "forcing" a young black kid in college to "do his bidding" and this sent them over the edge. They took there anger out on SuperCargo and I understood why, and the veteran doctor tried the same, so the narrator had a tough decision to make, and he made it as best he could.
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