"But I drove him where he wanted to go, sir." "Where was that?" "Back of the slave-quarter section," I said with dread. "The quarters! Boy, are you a fool? Didn't you know better than to take a trustee out there?" "He asked me to, sir." (102) -I do not believe that IM practices any self sabotage in Chapters 1-6. He simply obeyed everything that Mr. Norton wanted. He obviously respects Mr. Norton by his reactions to Mr. Norton's stories and their conversations. Mr. Bledsoe just overreacts.
"He sounded as though he were in great pain. I looked at him anxiously. What had happened? What had I said?" (Pg.50) I believe that IM does practice self-sabotage because he did not think about what he was doing while he drove to Trueblood's log cabin. IM knew that Mr. Norton was a good man an that he would not like what Trueblood had done to his daughter. IM let's Mr. Norton go into the log cabin and listen to the story without trying to really stop him. And then he drives him to a bar. Of course Mr. Norton is going to get drunk after the story he had heard. IM does not think before he acts so he is sabotaging himself.
"But I was only driving him, sir. I only stopped there after he ordered me to..." (IM Pg.138) I believe that IM is practicing self-sabotage in this section of the story. This is because like the quote above says, IM is just doing what he is told to do by Mr. NOrton. It is this obedient attitude displayed by IM towards powerful white men like Mr. Norton that conveys the idea that IM is is accepting and trying to following what society expects of him as an African American. In simple terms, it means that IM is willing to bide by the societal expectations of the white culture.
"I don't see one, sir. They're harmless though." "Nevertheless, they should have an attendant" (73)
I believe that IM is practicing self sabotage from the way he rejects Mr. Norton's warnings. In this quote Norton is warning IM about the golden day before things go too far out of hand; however IM never leaves and everything goes downhill from there. IM claims that he only did as Mr. Norton said, but Mr. Norton's warnings suggest otherwise. This shows that IM is doing this more on choice rather than following the will of Mr. Norton. That is why I believe that IM is practicing self sabotage.
I think IM was just obeying people he was afraid of. He was afraid at any minute they could harm him or take something from him. He wasn't practicing self-sabotage, he was just doing what he thought was right, and what would get him where he needed to go.
"That's all, sir, except that I want to say that I'm sorry for what I did and that I hold no hard feelings. What I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment." (pg 148)
I do not believe that IM participates in self-sabotage. While he may have made poor choices in where he decided to show Mr. Norton on the campus, I don't think he intentionally did things that he knew would get him into trouble with Bledsoe. After the fact, he realized his mistakes and he took responsibility for what happened, but I don't think he did it on purpose.
"I could drive you to the station, sir," I said hopefully. "Thank you, but Dr. Bledsoe has already arranged it." "Oh," I said with disappointment. I had hoped that by serving him the rest of the week I could win back his esteem.(108)
In chapters 1-6, I believe IM is practicing self-sabatoge, though he may not realize it. He lives in confusion and fear about what his grandfather said before he died. He knows that he has received his opportunities by living 'right', but he feels it's "like a curse." (17) So, I think his fear is what is causing IM to sel-sabatoge himself, although he feels the need to break free, he can't make himself because he's afraid he'll be seen as a traitor.
"Whatever my responsibility was for what had occurred, I knew I would pay for it" (146)
I believe IM practiced self sabotage because he knew what he was doing was wrong but continued anyway. He took Mr. Norton somewhere he wanted to go but he knew better than to actually take him there. IM knew there would be a consequence for what was happening but paid no mind to it causing him to self sabotage himself.
"He asked me to sir" pg.102. I do not believe that invisible man practices self sabatoge. I believe he was confused about the situation. He had most likely never even in a predicament like that before. Not only was he confused but he also feared the "white man" so he was going to do everything he said. I believe he was in a bad situation and it continued to escalate but was never in his control.
"Was Mr.Norton mad at me? In the Golden Day he had seemed more curious than anything else-...I headed the car through the red-brick campus gateposts with a sense of cold apprehension." (IM 98/99) I don't think he sabotaging himself, I believe the things he does are just how he would naturally react. For example, Mr.Norton needed whiskey so IM took him to the nearest bar that he knew of. He doesn't do things to mess up on purpose.
"But it was out of my control, sir," I said, "just as Mr. Norton said..." "I'll explain, young man," (104)
Invisible Man's naïveté is completely genuine and is expressed in a blatant innocence that convinced me he is just ignorant. He didn't understand what to show and not show Mr. Norton. He also didn't know when to stop. He could have easily carried out with a better tour, however he seriously didn't know any better. He did not participate in self sabotage.
"Mr.Norton, sir it's time we were getting back to the campus. You'll miss your appointments...."(60)
IM didn't purposely sabotage himself. It is clear in this quote that IM is feeling uncomfortable because of the story that Mr.Norton is hearing and wants to go back to finish the tour.
"Whatever my responsibility was for what had occurred, I knew I would pay for it" (146)
I think that IM absolutely practiced self sabotage. He knew better than to take someone as important as Mr. Norton to a place like truebloods cabin or golden day. Even though he was simply doing what Mr. Norton asked, he new he shouldn't have because he knows he is going to have consequences to face.
"I'll tell him" I screamed " I'll tell everybody. I'll fight you. I swear it, I'll fight" (PG. 141)
I Believe he truly tried to do his best to stay, not sabotage himself. If he truly didnt want to sucseed he wouldnt have tried to fight his way out of this situation.
"But I drove him where he wanted to go, sir." "Where was that?" "Back of the slave-quarter section," I said with dread. "The quarters! Boy, are you a fool? Didn't you know better than to take a trustee out there?" "He asked me to, sir." (102)
I feel that the Invisible Man seemed like he was choosing to do all of these things, not because he was told to do so, but because he doesn't have second thoughts about actions and how they could affect others, even if he's not the one who thought of the action. That's why I think he gets into so much trouble because he is single-minded.
"'It's early to go in for the next session,' he said. 'Suppose you just drive. Anywhere you like.'" (38)
Mr. Norton was speaking in the section above. I believe that Invisible Man is practicing self- sabotage, because he made the decision where to drive. Mr. Norton was just along for the ride. He may have had authority, but IM decided on the route that would ruin his plans.
"The quarters! Boy, are you a fool? Didn't you know better than to take a trustee out there?" "He asked me to, sir." (page 102)
I do not believe that Invisible Man was practicing self-sabotage. I do believe that he did not think carefully about his decision to take Mr. Norton to the slave quarter section, understandably because his grandfather instilled the idea of yessing the white man to death. So, because of that idea, IM only did what he truly thought he should be doing.
" I want to say that I'm sorry for what I did and that I hold no hard feelings. What I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment." (pg 148)
I do not think that Invisible Man practices self sabotage. I don't believe he preformed these actions intentionally to cause harm to anyone, but rather because he felt he could not tell the white man no without receiving an even harsher punishment. He knew what he was doing was wrong, but he didn't believe he had a choice in the matter.
"But at the same time I was puzzled: How could anyone's fate be pleasant? I had always thought of it as something painful. No one I knew spoke of it as pleasant..." (pg 40)
I believe that Invisible Man did practice self sabotage; he knew that taking Mr. Norton to the slave headquarters and the bar wasn't the best idea. He did it anyways, because he believed that fate wasn't supposed to be pleasant for him. Everybody he knew thought of fate as painful, so he chose to stick to his culture's norm and make sure his fate was just like theirs.
"His voice trailed off. Something cold formed within my chest. If anything happened to him Dr. Bledsoe would blame me. (pg. 69)
I believe that IM was not trying to self-sabotage himself. It may seem like it from the decisions he made, but he had not thought about the effect could have been from those decisions. As one can see that the effects were beyond his control but still, he could have thought more about the decisions he had made. None of his decisions were purposely made in order to harm anyone, they were made as to hopefully shed light on situations and to help others.
"Whatever my responsibility was for what had occurred, I knew I would pay for it" (146)
The IM does practice self sabotage in the novel. Here, he makes it known that he sees his consequences, yet he continues to do the things he knows will hurt him. He seems to believe that he is doomed no matter what. His grandfather's words haunt him and cause him to think less logically and more on his feelings, causing him to ruin his own fate.
"You have the nerve to threaten me...in my own office?" (141)
The IM is self-sabotaging by threatening the owner of the school. He should know, by common sense, that pledging is the only right way to get out of the problem. But instead he continues and as a result, he is kicked out of the school. There is hope for him though, at the end of chapter 5, he realizes he has lost it all. The IM could have a new fresh start with his new knowledge from these failures.
Pg 148- "what I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment"
I do not think IM is practicing self sabotage due to his extreme optimism at the hope of returning to the school when told he can return. Also, he did not intend to cause harm to Mr. Norton in any way, he simply wanted to please him and make himself look respectable and likeable. What happened after was simply a string of bad luck that IM did not intentially cause and even apologized for. The agreement with us punishment was not out of happiness that punishment was inflicted, but out of embarrassment and hope for return.
"That's all, sir, except that I want to say that I'm sorry for what I did and that I hold no hard feelings. What I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment." (pg 148) I Do not think IM is practicing self sabotage. I feel that he is just obeying what he is asked to do. Mr. Norton asked IM to take him for a drink so IM went to the closest bar that he knew of. I think IM is very unlucky in the decisions he made.
"It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what I was. I accepted their answers, too, and they were often in contradiction and self-contridictory." Page 15
IM is not self sabotaging himself, he is simply following what everyone tells him to do. He admits to accepting what others think of him. One thing I think IM will learn before the end of the book is that he was born with a purpose before anyone created an opinion about him. He does not hurt himself, he simply let's others hurt him.
"I had kept unswervingly to the path placed before me, had tried to be exactly what I was expected to be, had done exactly what i was expected to do." (146)
I do not think the Invisible Man is practicing self-sabotage, but he is submissive to everyone around him. He has given up his voice and individual mind, but he is not looking into dooming himself. He is just limiting his abilities and potential.
"He asked me to, sir" (102) -IM did not practice self sabotage, he merely followed the directions of Mr. Norton, which is what sabotaged him, but it was not intentionally self-inflicted
IM just obeys the people who are above him because he fears them. He was doing what it took to get him where he needed to be. He was not practicing self-sabotage.
"But I drove him where he wanted to go, sir."
ReplyDelete"Where was that?"
"Back of the slave-quarter section," I said with dread.
"The quarters! Boy, are you a fool? Didn't you know better than to take a trustee out there?"
"He asked me to, sir." (102)
-I do not believe that IM practices any self sabotage in Chapters 1-6. He simply obeyed everything that Mr. Norton wanted. He obviously respects Mr. Norton by his reactions to Mr. Norton's stories and their conversations. Mr. Bledsoe just overreacts.
"He sounded as though he were in great pain. I looked at him anxiously. What had happened? What had I said?" (Pg.50)
ReplyDeleteI believe that IM does practice self-sabotage because he did not think about what he was doing while he drove to Trueblood's log cabin. IM knew that Mr. Norton was a good man an that he would not like what Trueblood had done to his daughter. IM let's Mr. Norton go into the log cabin and listen to the story without trying to really stop him. And then he drives him to a bar. Of course Mr. Norton is going to get drunk after the story he had heard. IM does not think before he acts so he is sabotaging himself.
"But I was only driving him, sir. I only stopped there after he ordered me to..." (IM Pg.138)
ReplyDeleteI believe that IM is practicing self-sabotage in this section of the story. This is because like the quote above says, IM is just doing what he is told to do by Mr. NOrton. It is this obedient attitude displayed by IM towards powerful white men like Mr. Norton that conveys the idea that IM is is accepting and trying to following what society expects of him as an African American. In simple terms, it means that IM is willing to bide by the societal expectations of the white culture.
This section of the story is referring to Chapters 1-6.
ReplyDelete"I don't see one, sir. They're harmless though."
ReplyDelete"Nevertheless, they should have an attendant" (73)
I believe that IM is practicing self sabotage from the way he rejects Mr. Norton's warnings. In this quote Norton is warning IM about the golden day before things go too far out of hand; however IM never leaves and everything goes downhill from there. IM claims that he only did as Mr. Norton said, but Mr. Norton's warnings suggest otherwise. This shows that IM is doing this more on choice rather than following the will of Mr. Norton. That is why I believe that IM is practicing self sabotage.
"He was the kind of white man I feared." pg 41
ReplyDeleteI think IM was just obeying people he was afraid of. He was afraid at any minute they could harm him or take something from him. He wasn't practicing self-sabotage, he was just doing what he thought was right, and what would get him where he needed to go.
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ReplyDelete"That's all, sir, except that I want to say that I'm sorry for what I did and that I hold no hard feelings. What I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment." (pg 148)
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that IM participates in self-sabotage. While he may have made poor choices in where he decided to show Mr. Norton on the campus, I don't think he intentionally did things that he knew would get him into trouble with Bledsoe. After the fact, he realized his mistakes and he took responsibility for what happened, but I don't think he did it on purpose.
"I could drive you to the station, sir," I said hopefully.
ReplyDelete"Thank you, but Dr. Bledsoe has already arranged it."
"Oh," I said with disappointment. I had hoped that by serving him the rest of the week I could win back his esteem.(108)
In chapters 1-6, I believe IM is practicing self-sabatoge, though he may not realize it. He lives in confusion and fear about what his grandfather said before he died. He knows that he has received his opportunities by living 'right', but he feels it's "like a curse." (17) So, I think his fear is what is causing IM to sel-sabatoge himself, although he feels the need to break free, he can't make himself because he's afraid he'll be seen as a traitor.
"Whatever my responsibility was for what had occurred, I knew I would pay for it" (146)
ReplyDeleteI believe IM practiced self sabotage because he knew what he was doing was wrong but continued anyway. He took Mr. Norton somewhere he wanted to go but he knew better than to actually take him there. IM knew there would be a consequence for what was happening but paid no mind to it causing him to self sabotage himself.
"He asked me to sir" pg.102.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that invisible man practices self sabatoge. I believe he was confused about the situation. He had most likely never even in a predicament like that before. Not only was he confused but he also feared the "white man" so he was going to do everything he said. I believe he was in a bad situation and it continued to escalate but was never in his control.
"Was Mr.Norton mad at me? In the Golden Day he had seemed more curious than anything else-...I headed the car through the red-brick campus gateposts with a sense of cold apprehension." (IM 98/99)
ReplyDeleteI don't think he sabotaging himself, I believe the things he does are just how he would naturally react. For example, Mr.Norton needed whiskey so IM took him to the nearest bar that he knew of. He doesn't do things to mess up on purpose.
"But it was out of my control, sir," I said, "just as Mr. Norton said..."
ReplyDelete"I'll explain, young man," (104)
Invisible Man's naïveté is completely genuine and is expressed in a blatant innocence that convinced me he is just ignorant. He didn't understand what to show and not show Mr. Norton. He also didn't know when to stop. He could have easily carried out with a better tour, however he seriously didn't know any better. He did not participate in self sabotage.
"Mr.Norton, sir it's time we were getting back to the campus. You'll miss your appointments...."(60)
ReplyDeleteIM didn't purposely sabotage himself. It is clear in this quote that IM is feeling uncomfortable because of the story that Mr.Norton is hearing and wants to go back to finish the tour.
"Whatever my responsibility was for what had occurred, I knew I would pay for it" (146)
ReplyDeleteI think that IM absolutely practiced self sabotage. He knew better than to take someone as important as Mr. Norton to a place like truebloods cabin or golden day. Even though he was simply doing what Mr. Norton asked, he new he shouldn't have because he knows he is going to have consequences to face.
"I'll tell him" I screamed " I'll tell everybody. I'll fight you. I swear it, I'll fight" (PG. 141)
ReplyDeleteI Believe he truly tried to do his best to stay, not sabotage himself. If he truly didnt want to sucseed he wouldnt have tried to fight his way out of this situation.
"But I drove him where he wanted to go, sir."
ReplyDelete"Where was that?"
"Back of the slave-quarter section," I said with dread.
"The quarters! Boy, are you a fool? Didn't you know better than to take a trustee out there?"
"He asked me to, sir." (102)
I feel that the Invisible Man seemed like he was choosing to do all of these things, not because he was told to do so, but because he doesn't have second thoughts about actions and how they could affect others, even if he's not the one who thought of the action. That's why I think he gets into so much trouble because he is single-minded.
"'It's early to go in for the next session,' he said. 'Suppose you just drive. Anywhere you like.'" (38)
ReplyDeleteMr. Norton was speaking in the section above. I believe that Invisible Man is practicing self- sabotage, because he made the decision where to drive. Mr. Norton was just along for the ride. He may have had authority, but IM decided on the route that would ruin his plans.
"The quarters! Boy, are you a fool? Didn't you know better than to take a trustee out there?"
ReplyDelete"He asked me to, sir." (page 102)
I do not believe that Invisible Man was practicing self-sabotage. I do believe that he did not think carefully about his decision to take Mr. Norton to the slave quarter section, understandably because his grandfather instilled the idea of yessing the white man to death. So, because of that idea, IM only did what he truly thought he should be doing.
" I want to say that I'm sorry for what I did and that I hold no hard feelings. What I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment." (pg 148)
ReplyDeleteI do not think that Invisible Man practices self sabotage. I don't believe he preformed these actions intentionally to cause harm to anyone, but rather because he felt he could not tell the white man no without receiving an even harsher punishment. He knew what he was doing was wrong, but he didn't believe he had a choice in the matter.
"But at the same time I was puzzled: How could anyone's fate be pleasant? I had always thought of it as something painful. No one I knew spoke of it as pleasant..." (pg 40)
ReplyDeleteI believe that Invisible Man did practice self sabotage; he knew that taking Mr. Norton to the slave headquarters and the bar wasn't the best idea. He did it anyways, because he believed that fate wasn't supposed to be pleasant for him. Everybody he knew thought of fate as painful, so he chose to stick to his culture's norm and make sure his fate was just like theirs.
"His voice trailed off. Something cold formed within my chest. If anything happened to him Dr. Bledsoe would blame me. (pg. 69)
ReplyDeleteI believe that IM was not trying to self-sabotage himself. It may seem like it from the decisions he made, but he had not thought about the effect could have been from those decisions. As one can see that the effects were beyond his control but still, he could have thought more about the decisions he had made. None of his decisions were purposely made in order to harm anyone, they were made as to hopefully shed light on situations and to help others.
"Whatever my responsibility was for what had occurred, I knew I would pay for it" (146)
ReplyDeleteThe IM does practice self sabotage in the novel. Here, he makes it known that he sees his consequences, yet he continues to do the things he knows will hurt him. He seems to believe that he is doomed no matter what. His grandfather's words haunt him and cause him to think less logically and more on his feelings, causing him to ruin his own fate.
"You have the nerve to threaten me...in my own office?" (141)
ReplyDeleteThe IM is self-sabotaging by threatening the owner of the school. He should know, by common sense, that pledging is the only right way to get out of the problem. But instead he continues and as a result, he is kicked out of the school. There is hope for him though, at the end of chapter 5, he realizes he has lost it all. The IM could have a new fresh start with his new knowledge from these failures.
Pg 148- "what I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment"
ReplyDeleteI do not think IM is practicing self sabotage due to his extreme optimism at the hope of returning to the school when told he can return. Also, he did not intend to cause harm to Mr. Norton in any way, he simply wanted to please him and make himself look respectable and likeable. What happened after was simply a string of bad luck that IM did not intentially cause and even apologized for. The agreement with us punishment was not out of happiness that punishment was inflicted, but out of embarrassment and hope for return.
"That's all, sir, except that I want to say that I'm sorry for what I did and that I hold no hard feelings. What I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment." (pg 148)
ReplyDeleteI Do not think IM is practicing self sabotage. I feel that he is just obeying what he is asked to do. Mr. Norton asked IM to take him for a drink so IM went to the closest bar that he knew of. I think IM is very unlucky in the decisions he made.
"It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what I was. I accepted their answers, too, and they were often in contradiction and self-contridictory." Page 15
ReplyDeleteIM is not self sabotaging himself, he is simply following what everyone tells him to do. He admits to accepting what others think of him. One thing I think IM will learn before the end of the book is that he was born with a purpose before anyone created an opinion about him. He does not hurt himself, he simply let's others hurt him.
"I had kept unswervingly to the path placed before me, had tried to be exactly what I was expected to be, had done exactly what i was expected to do." (146)
ReplyDeleteI do not think the Invisible Man is practicing self-sabotage, but he is submissive to everyone around him. He has given up his voice and individual mind, but he is not looking into dooming himself. He is just limiting his abilities and potential.
"He asked me to, sir" (102)
ReplyDelete-IM did not practice self sabotage, he merely followed the directions of Mr. Norton, which is what sabotaged him, but it was not intentionally self-inflicted
"He was the kind of white man I feared." pg 41
ReplyDeleteIM just obeys the people who are above him because he fears them. He was doing what it took to get him where he needed to be. He was not practicing self-sabotage.