All 4 Uses
paralysis
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- I was just like a jaybird that the yellow jackets done stung 'til he's paralyzed-but still alive in his eyes and he's watchin' 'em sting his body to death.†
Chpt 2 *
- I was paralyzed, looking at him, knowing I wasn't dreaming, hearing: What makes him happy, what makes him dance, This Sambo, this jambo, this high-stepping joy boy?†
Chpt 20
- It was a state neither of dreaming nor of waking, but somewhere in between, in which I was caught like Trueblood's jaybird that yellow jackets had paralyzed in every part but his eyes.†
Chpt 25
- Fully awake now, I simply lay there as though paralyzed.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(paralysis) loss of the ability to move the body or a part of it
or:
inability to act or make a decision - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)