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Complete 4 page APA formatted essay: Existentialism in American Literature.

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Human beings are not just objects but people who should operate, feel and live in the way that they think best. This movement came up after the some of the French citizens felt that it was wrong for the colonialists to force them to live in a certain way and decide on the activities the French had to engage in. This period in history led to many literal pieces as many authors and poets sort to share their views with the rest of the world about the emptiness they felt under colonization and war. Ellison is an author and philosopher who felt frustrated because of the way human beings were discriminated especially the black people in Europe. He wrote the novel Invisible Man as he sort to explain his views about the plight of people at that time. Invisible man is a novel that explains the invisibility of a man in a world made up of blind people. The main character of the novel is a black man who is not viewed as a human being but a nothing by people from other races. This makes the main character invisible and the people that discriminate him as blind. This places the novel in the historical times when existentialism movement was active and the war in Europe had caused a lot of damage (Ralph, Pp 368). The author wrote the book during the Second World War. This places the novel in the historical times when existentialism movement was active and the war in Europe had caused a lot of damage (Ralph, Pp 368). The author wrote the book during the Second World War. Instead of focusing on the overall meaning….

Moreover, people view the blond man who insulted the black man as the victim (Ralph, Pp 173). They do not recognize the effort of the invisible man who is trying to make people respect him and stop discriminating him. The invisible man practices his freedom to act the way he wants in life. Using his invisibility, he commits crimes and the authority cannot catch him and make him pay for his mistake. He steals electricity and uses a lot of the electrical energy until the administration of the power company realizes that someone is stealing their electricity but do not know his location or name. The main character keeps his name hidden. This enables him to speak his mind out without the fear that people will realize who he is (Ralph, Pp 238). The invisible man uses 1369 bulbs to light his house. This is because he wants to see his existence beyond the eyes of the people who discriminate him and hold negative opinions about him. The author, Ellison sought to bring to light the suffering of people because of their race in France during the Second World War. The choices of songs he uses in the novel is like, “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue.” These types of songs made the readers of the poem to talk about the racial discrimination, which can later lead to change. Jean-Paul Sartre is a novelist who also wrote books that influenced the attitude of people in relation to the meaning of existence. Nausea is an example of the books that the philosopher wrote that talks about the feeling of nothingness and emptiness (Sartre, Pp.70). Antoine Roquentin views his external world as filled with emptiness and that the non-living creatures in the environment steal his energy making him feel nauseated.