The invisible Man Weekend Assignment

Pd 5 Klimas
Liberty Paint, first mentioned on page 196, give the message of Freedom. However the slogan "KEEP AMERICA PURE WITH LIBERTY PAINTS" is shown to be ironic later in the chapter. On page 200, Kimbro hands The Invisible Man a graduate of black liquid, and expects him to add it to the white paint that he is mixing. The paint is representative of American Society, and The Invisible Man is just one more drop of black paint into a white society, that still looks white, but in fact is not.
The "Optic White" paint is not exactly Optic White on page 205. "I looked at the painted slab. It appeared to be the same: tinge glowed through the whiteness, and Kimbro had failed to detect it." (205) This is the author allowing The Invisible Man to see that by assimilating nothing can be purely white. The destruction of the motif seen throughout the novel thus far shows the breaking down of the characters sense of place in life, as well as showing that the American population at the time was, in the north at least, beginning to accept the idea that two races can get along in coexistence. Further more on that same page (205) The Invisible Man says "but I had a feeling that something had gone wrong, something far more important than the paint..." Perhaps in the mind of America at the time, he was right, something was far more wrong.
The foreshadowing of The Invisible Man’s future invisibility is begun on page 207, when he descends into the basement and is acknowledged before seen. "Three levels underground I pushed upon a heavy metal door marked ‘Danger’ and descended into ta noisy dimly lit room. There was something familiar about the fumes that filled the air and I had just thought pine, when a high-pitched Negro voice rang out..." The idea of a dimly lit basement becoming his workplace shows reminds the reader that he is a bright individual, as has been mentioned many times in the previous chapters, and his aversion to darkness is to be challenged. The basement seems to be the only place that The Invisible Man can find acceptance, even if reluctantly.
While a long chapter in the novel, it is full of foreshadowing, symbols, and themes of Invisibility and Assimilation. Thus far the author’s diction is precise and highly symbolic. This chapter is full of symbols like the ones mentioned above. The impending invisibility of The Indivisible Man is becoming more obvious to the reader, and seemingly less obvious to he himself.