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Tod Clifton's Brother: Summary

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54.What happens when the narrator is called back to headquarters for an emergency meeting, and what news does Brother Jack deliver to the narrator?
The narrator, waiting to be called by the Brotherhood for having relations with a married white women gets an unexpected call from Brother Jack in the middle of the night. The narrator is told that Brother Clifton is no where to be found as well as that Ras the Explorer wants to take over the city of Harlem. The narrator is incredibly caught off guard at what he is being told for he thought for sure he was going to be in trouble with the Brotherhood but instead he is handed his news which is cause for concern.
Chapter Twenty
55.How did Clifton choose to make his escape, or “to fall outside,” from …show more content…

They are appalled at the narrator for thinking that he has the authority to make such a statement since they fully believe that
Clifton betrayed them.
60.What is the metaphorical value of Brother Jack’s glass eye?
Brother Jack's glass eye continues the constant them of blindness thought the duration of the novel. The eye is something that symbols the blindness that Brother Jack and the Brotherhood have because he had sustained the injury for the Brotherhood. Brother Jack is literally blind but the Brotherhood is blind in its beliefs and ideologies.
Chapter Twenty-Three
61.Explain the significance: “If they tolerate Rinehart, then they will forget it and even with them you are invisible.”
Since Rinehart has taken on many positions in order to coerce as many people as he can, the narrator realizes that he could take on a different persona and identity than he had originally thought. He is mistaken for Rinehart by simply wearing glasses and a jacket, so if he can be mistaken that easily for someone else, does his own identity really matter? This enables him …show more content…

62.How has the narrator become invisible?
The narrator has become invisible in the sense that he is the only one around him that knows he exists. There is no one left that is able to see him, his feelings or his behaviors anymore due to him realizing that the Brotherhood is not striving for the people of Harlem's best interests. He begins to understand that in society he is just a black man and that in itself debilitates him.
Nothing is expected in society from a black man because he is unable to achieve anything due to racism and a white dominated society. The narrator can see this now after the betrayal of the
Brotherhood; he realizes as a black man, he is invisible.
Chapter Twenty-Four
63.How has the narrator come to adopt one of Dr. Bledsoe’s

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