Chapter 22

Chapter Summary
After Brother Clifton's funeral, TIM is in a room with his fellow brothers and they are upset at his actions concerning the funeral. They question his loyalty to the Brotherhood. They feel that the crowd was led for the wrong reasons. With all of the brothers against him, TIM becomes angry and loses his temper. He feels he was doing the right thing by regaining the Harlem people's faith in the Brotherhood. Brother Jack convinces TIM to stay and explains to him that Brother Clifton was a "anti-Negro, anti-minority racist bigot." A traitor who did not deserve a funeral of a hero. Brother Jack reminds TIM that he was hired to talk, not think. During this chapter, Brother Jack also removes the glass eye to show TIM his sacrifice in the line of duty. Brother Jack believes he got his point across and tells TIM to go see Brother Hambro, leaving TIM to feel upset and with a totally new view of the Brotherhood.

Themes
Sacrifice (the glass eye)
Blindness (the glass eye)
Power (Brother Jack, leader of Brotherhood/people)
Betrayal (Brother Clifton)
Humanity/Equality (Brother Clifton was killed unarmed because he was black) Discipline

Motifs
Brotherhood-Unit
Boomerang
Dream-confrontation feels like dream (grandfather enters TIM's mind) Lights (one above table)
Doll (Sambo)
Skin color-Brother Jack turns red

Characters
Brother Jack: leader
Brother Tobitt: criticizes
TIM: defending himself
Other brothers present

Quotations
Discipline: "You'll learn and you'll surrender yourself to it even under such conditions. Especially under such conditions; that's its value. That makes it patience" (465).

Betrayal: "The stategist has raised a very interesting question. What's wrong, he asks. All right. I'll answer. Under your leadership, a traitorous merchant of vile instruments of Anti-Negro, anti-minority racist bigotry has received the funeral of a hero. Do you still ask what's wrong?" (466)