Ashley Shepherd Journey week 2

After the speech given by Homer A. Barbee, the invisible man starts on his walk to go meet with Dr. Bledsoe as instructed. The invisible man follows the heard out of the church and finds himself “behind a group of boys going up the drive” (106). He makes a point to note that students feel “seemingly far away from me now, remote, and each shadowy form vastly superior to me” (106).  As he continues to follow behind the boys on his journey he surprisingly finds himself “outside the gates of the campus and heading down the highway” ( 107). Shocked the invisible man turns back and runs to the building. This journey the invisible man takes demonstrates how much the events with Mr.Norton, Trueblood and the vet have impacted him. The events of the day have made him see his fellow students as shadows and remote since he has experienced something most of them will never will. As the invisible man wanders absentmindedly outside the gates of the college it shows the desires of his unconscious. The desire to go beyond the safe and hypocritical gates of the college and to experience more of what he had experienced through the course of events that day. His conscious is scared as demonstrated by him running back inside the gates, but his unconscious is curious eager to see beyond the safeness of the college. This journey he takes gives insight on the journey that the invisible mans brain is taking as well, being open to new ideas and ready to experience more of the world.