November 22, Posting Komentar. All books format are mobile-friendly. Once she knows this, Lila Mae goes back to his texts and finds entirely new meaning in them. Knowing that Fulton is black, the language of Theoretical Elevators suddenly seems to ridicule, instead of empower the elevator world.
She realizes that it is, in fact, a satirical text that critiques the very system she thought it supported. She realizes now that it is not, in fact, the ultimate goal of Intuitionism and the elevator world, but instead a symbolic critique.
They can only rise in the elevator society , if they sacrifice their truths. The tool of uplift is actually a tool of oppression.
As Lila Mae reads on, more truths are revealed to her. In Volume Two of his texts, Fulton reveals his own submission to white hegemony, and admits his failure to communicate the problem of racial and cultural subjugation in Volume One. However, because his readership thought he was white, the symbolism was lost on them, and Volume One instead became a theoretical foundation supporting the very system he was attempting to discredit.
As Lila Mae continues to pour over his texts, she has a particularly strong reaction to his musings on this.
Yet ironically, he is unable to have the true intentions of Theoretical Elevators understood because of his white guise. He wants to admit his blackness, so his true message will be received, but at the same time, he is afraid. Acknowledging his true identity to the larger white world of progress might discredit him as a scholar. Yes, he achieved recognition, but for the wrong reasons. As she reads Volume Two, she begins to understand what Fulton had been trying to say all along: that authentic uplift can never come from what the elevator world represents.
As she realizes this, she has an epiphany about her own position in the elevator world: all her years as an intuitionist, she had been hiding parts of herself to fit in. The mask represents her need to conform to the white world, no matter how much it pained her.
In other words, she had, in the past, accepted the fact that she had to change who she was to fit in. This idea is further realized by Lila Mae when she applies it to Pompey, the only other black intuitionist in the novel. In the beginning of novel, there is an instance in which she and Pompey are viewing a minstrel show along with a largely white audience. The show picks fun of black people, playing on stereotypes to generate humor.
They make the rules. Their creation has shaped the form and structure of whiteheac buildings with arrangements of floors vertically stacked ad infinitum up into the sky, a concept itself only possible as a result of reliable, mechanical elevation. Lila Mae Watson is the first black female elevator inspector there is one older man who is the first black elevator inspectorworking at a time when the Department of Elevator Inspectors is sharply divided between two approaches to the inspection of elevators: As Lila Mae strives to exonerate herself in this urgent adventure full of government spies, underworld hit men, and seductive double agents, behind the action, always, is the Idea.
Refresh and try again. Yes, this is one of those books where the setup sounds faintly ridiculous. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. Jun 26, Dree rated it it was amazing Shelves: Yet the wheels of politics are grinding in the background.
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