It's been a few years since I read it, but does anyone else see connections between the Invisible Man and The Jungle?

This is going back a bit. But my mythology class talked about the Allegory of the Cave this week! I love it when all the random classes

if there is any 20th century literature to study that might be more optimistic?

he appreciates The Invisible Man than he would have if we had not read Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery."

excited and embarrassed that he will be reading Hemingway for the first time today...

if anyone else sees similarities between Black Elk Speaks and ancient mythology

pretty crappy after reading about the plight we have put native and African Americans through...

Washington would have elaborated more on his education. I feel like he jumped too quickly into talking about the Atlanta Exposition.

what Booker T. Washington would have to say about current race relations, and Barack Obama

that 'Maggie' was a bit hard to get into, but that Crane ended it too abruptly.