Both Lucius Brockway and Dr. Bledsoe have the same "it's my way or the highway" mentality.
Dr. Bledsoe has been working at the college since he was young just as Lucius Brockway has been working at the paint plant so long that he can draw the layout of the pipes from memory.
Lucius Brockway also thinks similarly to Dr. Bledsoe about the control white people have saying
"they got all this machinery, but that ain't everything; we that machines inside the machine."
Both realize that their is a bigger picture surrounding both their jobs and lives so they are both only interested in doing their jobs well too benefit themselves.
Chapter Eleven
36.After the explosion, the narrator wakes up while being examined by a man with “a bright third eye that …show more content…
The fact that he narrator notes this man as having one eye continues the overall theme for blindness in the novel. The figure only having one eye to the narrator can be a metaphor for him not being able to see the narrator anymore as a person but as a subject. As in the one eye is examining him and only viewing him with a biased view, as everyone else does
37.Describe what the men “treating” the narrator are doing to their “patient."
Instead of using typical medical treatments on the narrator in effort to fix his head trauma, the
"treatment" is the start of a science experiment. The one "doctor" said he created a machine that would remove the need for surgery so the narrator wouldn't be left with "nasty scars", however the machine in which they are using to preform this "treatment" on the narrator ruins his mental and emotional state; it erases his existence.
38.“I was beyond anger. I was only bewildered.” Describe the other effects the “treatment” had on the narrator.
The treatment caused the narrator to think until ways he has before. When being expelled, sent to
Harlem, faced with the betrayal of Dr. Bledsoe, and caught in a factory explosion, the