“Flying Home”: a Living Story. Ralph Waldo Ellison is perhaps one of the most influential African-American writers of the twentieth century. Ellison is best known for writing about such topics as self-awareness, identity, and the racial repression of African-Americans in the United States. His masterpiece, Invisible Man, chronicles the story of a young man striving to find himself in a world where he is hardly noticed. This novel won him much respect in the eyes …showed first 75 words of 1617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1617 total…a human life after flying away from what you know, a wise lesson is do not forget your past and leave time for ‘flying home’. Bibliography Works Cited Busby, Mark. Ralph Ellison. Boston: Twayne. 1991 Bloom, Harold, ed. Ralph Ellison. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea. 1986. Trimmer, Joseph F. Ralph Ellison’s ‘Flying Home’. Studies In Short Fiction 9 (1972):175-182 Ellison, Ralph. “Flying Home.” Western Literature in a World Context. Ed. Nancy Lyman. New York: SMP. 1995. 1758-1770