Values ​​of the Invisible Man Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man is the story of an educated black man who was oppressed and controlled by white men throughout his life. As narrator, he remains anonymous throughout the novel as he travels from the South, where he studies at an all-black college, to Harlem where he joins a communist-like party known as the Brotherhood. Throughout the novel, the narrator is searching for his true identity. Several letters are given to him by strangers who give him a role: student, patient and member of the Brotherhood. One by one, he rejects them as he continues to get closer to the sense of his true self. At the end of the novel, he decides to hide in an abandoned cellar, plotting to undermine the whites. The entire story can be summarized when the narrator says "I am an invisible man and it put me in a hole - or showed me the hole I was in..." During the course of the novel, the narrator comes to value several intangible elements. which ultimately helped shape his identity. Through his experiences and the people he meets, the narrator discovers the important value of his education, his invisibility, and the advice of his grandfather. From the beginning of the novel, the narrator values ​​his education. His education first brought him a calfskin briefcase, when the superintendent rewarded him for his success by saying "Take this prize and guard it well. Consider it a badge of office. Reward it. Continue to develop as you are and one day it will be filled with important documents that will help shape the destiny of your people. The narrator cherishes the briefcase so much because it symbolizes his upbringing. He carries it throughout the novel. is the only object he takes into the cellar of... middle of paper ......ture and History 1996 ed. Kelly, Robin DG "Encyclopedia of Culture and. African-American History. 1996 ed. Internet Sources: Bellow, Saul. “Man Underground” Review of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Commentary. December 1. 1999.