Raplh Ellison's Invisible Man is by far the wackiest novel I've ever read. The first chapter introduces us into the narrator's absurd world, which is governed by sadistic rich white men who pit young black men against each each other for entertainment. This world seems to have no rules or reason other than to cause humiliation and pain, but the narrator accepts the absurdity of it all and continues fighting for what he thinks is success. The narrator has a "firm belief in the rightness of things" because he has been trained his whole life to comply with what people in power tell him. The veteran doctor in the Golden Day articulates that the narrator has been blinded by "that great false wisdom taught slaves and pragmatists alike, that white is right." Everything about the narrator's education was controlled by rich white men like Mr. Norton, who work to perpetuate their vision of racial superiority while cloaking their intent in the promise of know...