In the end when the narrator tries you use Sybil for, he end up finally gaining control because she has a fantasy rape in mind. Not the best way to gain control but he is still being used. When he goes down to riot in Harlem describes the lynched mannequins it leaves a disturbing last thought. That even through they are black they are modeled into what the white people create them to be. He burns everything one by one in his suitcase and falls asleep he has a nightmare of Jack, Emerson, Bledsoe, Norton, and Ras. The men mock him, castrate him, and declare that they have stripped him of his illusions. He wakes up panicking and hearing the screams from the men in his ears. He decides to stay underground and re states, “The end was in the beginning.” So he realizes life will just be the way that it is.

Brother Jack accuses Clifton of being a traitor still because he carried the Sambo doll and says they only used the narrator to preach the brotherhoods ideas because its the brotherhoods job to tell the community what they think. The narrator heated at this point says that he just wants to be "the great white father" and take over. SURPRISE! His fricken eye falls out because it is not real! AH this book has too many twists for me. It all makes sense, he cant advance for the black community because he can not "see" where they are coming from.
When the narrator is in disguise, he wear thick green glasses and everyone seems to mistake him for pastor Rinehart. Symbolic for the facts that he preaches ideas for other. Maybe the ideas shape them, because they are not able to shape themselves.

The narrator reached the point where he realizes the brotherhood is doing more for self advancement than black advancement. When nobody calls him and tries to exclude him from the meetings. Then finds Clifton with the Sambo doll on the street and responding to the cops and the people on the street as a "good slave", he is accepting racism in fear of getting killed by the cops. Who eventually do kill him. And it is revealed that Clifton was innocent, and only trying to rig the doll with a black string making the doll into a puppet. Which symbolizes how they are being controlled. When it seemed like he was being another hypocrite he ended up dying which haunts the narrator and makes him feel bad for thinking that Clifton was a traitor. Members of the brotherhood finally come to him only to ask about Clifton's death. The narrator feels betrayed and figures that he has to take matters in to his own hands and can not depend on really anybody.

When the narrator sleeps with white woman from the woman's activist group, she completely enjoys it. She does not find the narrator as just another no good African American, but as a dominant black man. In fact i thinks she is the one using him. I think she is intrigued by him, maybe because her and her husbands relationship is getting stale or boring. She uses him as just another toy to fulfill her sexual fantasies. I do not know if the fact that she is using him has anything to do with her being white and the dominating person over him. But if it does than that just means she's gaining control not the narrator. Maybe also because she is a feminist and cant let men have control but that would be another discriminatory topic. In the end, its the narrator who feels bad and vows to never put himself under such circumstances, especially if he were to get caught by the husband. He also feels guilt because its like sleeping with the enemy, but you can not help to try the forbidden fruit.

When the narrator questions who wrote the letter, it shows that he is thinking about his past. He wants to know if someone in the brotherhood does not like him, and he gets insecure and his moments of self doubt lead him to become brainwashed. He is reassured by brother Tarp that his is well liked. When Brother Westrum hints that there are some member or the brother hood who have racist point of views. I hope he is able to take a stand to them because then that would defeat the whole purpose of fighting for black advancement if some one were to be a hypocrite or a silent witness. Instead Westrum gets the narrator in trouble for accusing him of using the brother hood for his own personal advancement. By having an interview with a magazine editor, which he was hesitant to agree to in the first place. If anything, he knows that the narrator would catch on the fact that he himself is scared of not being a part of an alliance and is really using the brotherhood to protect himself.

While the first riot breaks out between the brotherhood and Ras's men it just so happens to be dark. And the blind metaphor pops up again. With out light the narrator is unable to tell which men to fight, its hard on him to distinguish which men are his and which was Ras's men. Both groups are fighting for black advancement, literally, but since they come from the same standpoint you cant see who is whom. I do not know if the author is trying to make another generalization to the people fighting. But this could be looked down upon against whites if it is, because they are fighting against each other instead of with one another. But when Ras spares Clifton's life, it shows that they are not fighting each other because one another has done wrong or they are angry, but they are desperate to make a point in black advancement.

I appreciate how the narrator gives his speech, because not only was it improvised it was him talking non "scientific". He is still going by his own rules. This takes a lot of courage especially coming from his back ground and even thought some of the people from the Brother hood disapprove of his speech I like its power. It also relates to the theme of blindness in the story. Because he talks about how everyone needs to see 2 sides of the street. Meaning understand how cultures lives there lives differently! When he finished his speech, he stumbles over, like the blind pastor did. I do not know if that has any connection but they both give meaning to idea of "seeing". The people of the brotherhood decide to make him chief spokesperson for the Harlem district and that Ras is still an opponent. I think Ras's name is symbolic for race, as in ethnicity.He seems to be a part of a reform but not with the brotherhood's reform and what they stand for.

I think there are three parts to a human. You're soul which is who you are, you're personalty. Whether you're stubborn, funny, a liar..etc whom ever you were created to be is your soul. Your mind which is like your back ground and the information you learn, which is the variable in your life and may or may not change. And your body which portrays all of this. For example a very hard headed serious guy, who will fight for anything he want is his soul. If he were to live in San Francisco he'd probably fight for legalizing marijuana or something liberal. But if he were to live in the South he'd probably fight against the democrats. Where he lives can determine his mind but this guy's soul will always be a fighter. Anyways I see the narrator like this a little when he decides to preach for the brother hood because he always enjoyed public speaking now he is doing against white people rather than sharing the "social responsibility". This is good though, because there is hints that he did not COMPLETELY change into some rebel, he's just using his gifts and talents for another good.

I like the narrators new change. He has become more aggressive, spittin' on pastors and what not! He says he is not going to be a activist or fight for this racial equality. But i think he will, because the person he is living with Mary, wants him too. Even though Mary is trying to pressure him, she does not make it an issue because Mary still accepts the narrator. She is still giving him a place to stay and some food to eat. He does not have that shame he was carrying when he was brain washed. When the waiter thought he wanted pork chop he order toast instead to fight a stereotype. But on the streets he's eating yams and chitterlings, authentic stereotype african american food and he could care less! When he sees the black family being thrown out of their house instead of accepting it, he puts their things back and PREACHES! He sees the black family as his family, not just some random people. So the urge to help them arise black heritage pride. This creates a riot around him and inside him, "a spot of black anger”.

After the fight with Luscious the narrator wakes unconscious in the hospital to the doctor with a glowing third eye. When the doctor asks the narrator personal questions he has no recollection to anything. Not his name, his mother, who he is, where he was born. Its like all the thoughts have been erased out of him and he is entering a new state in his life, because he gains control on how he wants to live it rather than having society pick his name for him. When he has sexual desires for the blond woman it brings up a real stereotypical point in life.(STEREOTYPES) How black men want a white woman, because she has money, she takes care of her self, is respectful, and has class. Compared to a black woman who wants her man to make the money, is lazy, disrespectful by being blunt or rude which shows no class. The funny thing is that the blond lady is eating an apple, like from Adam and Eve she has the forbidden fruit that the narrator wants to take a bit out of. This allusion makes the narrator's tranformation seem as if he's become more human and especially less brain washed!

Liberty Paints is best know for their color "Optic White". The word optic means your eye vision, so i think that the white paint is just an illusion. The paint is used to hid ones true self (color). In order to make the Optic White paint, you have this dirty brown substance and drop a few chemicals in it to make it pure. This America does to society, they try to culture everything into their way. It takes out the originality into what they think is better. In the case, white. They want to take out all color, back ground, and just make it white. In reality you could say that white people to try make everything optic white. Like when Great Britain tried to make convert Irish Catholics in to Protestants and the people who were not with the reform moved to America then tried to conform the native Americans and pushed them into extinction. Then the whites tried to make the slaves more Americanized by giving them slave names. Like a really AFRICAN name would be something like Johar Zahari but and African-AMERICAN name is Alex Johnson.