We discussed three events.
1)The narrator walking in on the meeting at the paint factory. Mr. Neal pointed out that this party that he walked in on will come to symbolize the communist and socialist parties of the time.
2) The next event in the chapter we covered was the narrator's fight with Mr. Brockway. The invisible man thought that Mr. Brockway had stabbed him; when in reality, he had merely bitten him. This is an example of the black on black racism that goes on throughout the book, as well as demonstrating the invisible mans anger issues. It can also connect back to his fight in the prologue-he believed the man was trying to kill him, when he really was not.
3)The third event we discussed was Mr. Brockway setting up the accident in the paint factory. This was a symbol for manipulation of power. People in power often manipulate it so that the lower people fight amongst themselves-this accident was a symbol and an example of that.
The next thing we did was discuss how to make things that are invisible, visible. For five minutes, we looked for things that were made in china. We found 34 things. The point was to take an abstract idea-China is the world's factory-and make it visible. We started reading George Orwell's "Down the Mine", which takes an invisible group-coal miners-and makes them visible.
And the next scribe is Sam!
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