Both the narrator of "Black and Blue" by Louis Armstrong and the "Invisible Man"by Ralph Ellison share similar feelings towards the discrimination of people due to their skin color. While in the novel, the narrator questions why his skin color makes him "invisible" to all the other people, Louis Armstrong asks why his skin color makes him so "black and blue." Both narrators are in very similar positions, which is brought out even more as the son is quoted and alluded to in the novel.
