Reborn Chapter 11 of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is unclear and cryptic in ways. The reader is never really told what is happening to the narrator. All the reader knows for certain is that the narrator is in some sort of factory hospital. Throughout the chapter Ellison constantly uses imagery that refers to birth. Ellison’s reason for using all of this imagery is fairly clear. He is trying to show that the narrator is …showed first 75 words of 491 total…

…showed last 75 words of 491 total…ultimately ends up in the crowd beating up the Marshall that was evicting the elderly couple, and them moving the elderly couple’s things back into their home. Chapter 11 is a very significant part in Invisible Man. It signifies a change in the narrator. Even though the reader is not really sure about what exactly went on in the factory hospital, it is evident that something substantial happened to the narrator. He was reborn, somehow.