The narrator turns Clifton's death into a public funeral before asking the Brotherhood. What is the committee's central objection?

At Clifton's funeral, the narrator dwells on the fact of Clifton's dead body rather than on a party line. What does that emphasis do?

Why is the funeral chapter structurally followed by the committee meeting?

Brother Jack's glass eye comes out while he lectures the narrator about discipline. What is the effect of that detail?

When the committee condemns the funeral as a mistake, what change in the narrator does the scene sharpen?

The Brotherhood treats Clifton's break with the group as more important than the circumstances of his death. What theme does that priority develop?

Wearing dark green glasses and a wide hat, the narrator is greeted as several different Rineharts. What does the sequence show him?

Rinehart can appear as lover, gambler, runner and preacher. Why does that range unsettle the narrator?

Placed after Jack's lecture, what does the Rinehart episode offer the narrator?

When people recognize Rinehart but not the narrator beneath the disguise, what does their recognition expose?

Which reading does the Rinehart chapter most clearly reject?

Hambro explains that Harlem will be sacrificed to a larger plan. What does the narrator learn from that explanation?

After Hambro, the narrator resolves to agree with the committee and tell them what they want to hear. How should that plan be read?

Why does the narrator's turn to Sybil fail as a political plan?

What moral risk is built into the narrator's plan to manipulate Brotherhood members after Hambro?

Why does the narrator not simply denounce Hambro's admission in public?

Dupre moves the tenants out before setting the tenement on fire. What does that sequence establish?

During the riot, the narrator follows Scofield and Dupre as they carry out their own plan to burn the tenement. What does his role in the scene show?

Ras appears mounted and armed with a spear during the riot. What does that spectacle emphasize?

When the narrator sees the riot after Hambro's explanation, how does the ordering affect its meaning?

Underground, the narrator burns items from his briefcase for light. What does that action symbolize?

What does the narrator's fall into the cellar after the riot do structurally?

The epilogue returns to the underground frame after the riot. What does that return accomplish?

The epilogue asks, "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" What does this address to the reader do?

When the narrator suggests his hibernation may be ending, what is the effect of that unresolved future?