Thursday, March 20, 2008
The world is a scary place sometimes
Life never is what it seems, and Wright comes to this conclusion at the end of the book. He feels like people will never unite and fight for something together, and this mostly applies to when he was thrown out of a line that he was invited to for a MayDay march. Blacks and whites both just stared, but didn't do anything to stop the violence toward Wright. The only way he can think things through and come to his own realizations of the real world is through his writing. He only wants to write to help people think for themselves, in the hopes that they will come to their own realizations. To find the answer to meaningless suffering just might lie within his audience, and maybe they might do something about it. Wright needs to write, without it, I feel like he won't be able to survive. Writing has been his way of expressing himself throughout the entire book, yet without it, he wouldn't have had the strife he ha to go through, he might not have even thought for himself. Without his writing he would have given in to the meaningless suffering. Also at the end of the book, for the first time, he didn't fight back, this just shows that he realizes that if he fights he can't win. This is why he later on goes to Europe, like many other writers, but he realizes that he can fight back by informing people through his writing.
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I think that your statement at the end - that he can't win if he fights back so he doesn't - is sort of the final development he goes through in the book. He doesn't realize that fighting is useless- just that he must find a different way to fight that actually works. I think that's why writing is what he decides on at the end - because writing is long-lasting and accessible to lots of people. If he can write succintly and clearly, then he'll be able to reach more people than by simply marching in parades and fighting when he gets kicked out.
Liz is correct - writing is fighting back.
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