All 24 Uses of
eviction
in
Invisible Man by Ellison
- They being evicted!†
Chpt 13
- I had never seen an eviction.†
Chpt 13
- Now I recognized a selfconsciousness about them, as though they, we, were ashamed to witness the eviction, as though we were all unwilling intruders upon some shameful event; and thus we were careful not to touch or stare too hard at the effects that lined the curb; for we were witnesses of what we did not wish to see, though curious, fascinated, despite our shame, and through it all the old female, mind-plunging crying.†
Chpt 13
- You were legally evicted.
Chpt 13 *evicted = forced to move from your home
- I was uneasy about their presence and disappointed when they all joined the crowd and started lugging the evicted articles back inside.†
Chpt 13
- " "You mean you're interfering with an eviction," he called, starting through the crowd.†
Chpt 13
- What on earth was it, I mused, bending my head to the wind, that made us leave the warm, mild weather of home for all this cold, and never to return, if not something worth hoping for, freezing for, even being evicted for?†
Chpt 13
- An old woman passed, bent down with two shopping bags, her eyes upon the slushy walk, and I thought of the old couple at the eviction.†
Chpt 13
- I couldn't imagine Mary being as helpless as the old woman at the eviction, and by the time I reached the apartment I had begun to lose my depression.†
Chpt 13
- With a few words he set off an effective demonstration against evictions!†
Chpt 14
- Booker Washington was resurrected today at a certain eviction in Harlem.†
Chpt 14
- More or less like the old couple that was evicted?†
Chpt 14
- But before I could open my mouth, Brother Jack had pushed me along to a group of men, one of whom seemed to know all about the eviction.†
Chpt 14
- Then turning, I saw the item Violent Protest Over Harlem Eviction, just as the man lowered his paper and moved out of the breaking doors.†
Chpt 15
- Outside, the audience had begun to drone; a distant, churning sound that brought back some of the terror of the eviction.†
Chpt 16
- Evict him!†
Chpt 16
- These are the days of dispossession, the season of homelessness, the time of evictions.†
Chpt 16
- I'm from the South, and since coming here I've known eviction.†
Chpt 16
- It was a mystery once more, as at the eviction I had uttered words that had possessed me.†
Chpt 16
- My part in the eviction was kept very much alive, and although I was under orders to make no speeches, I had grown accustomed to being introduced as a kind of hero.†
Chpt 17
- You are to continue what you started at the eviction.†
Chpt 17
- Brother, are we still to fight against evictions?†
Chpt 17
- With all the excitement over evictions they can't afford to come out against us, not without appearing to be against the best interests of the community …."†
Chpt 17
- The eviction fight was such a dramatic issue that most of the leaders feared that their followers would have rallied to us without them.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(eviction) the process of forcing someone to leave a place -- typically from a home due to non-payment