Tuesday, March 18, 2008

What is Wright’s realization at the end of the novel? Do you agree with it?

this is a powerful ending. at the end wright realizes his loneliness to a depth that he never has before. during this rally, he goes through this experience of deep thought - he remembers his past, he asks about their meaning, he realizes that his whole life he has been so hungry for a new way of life. and he knows he cannot go outside of the world and try to fix it, he knows he cannot go out and simply fill himself up, or go amongst people try to understand it anymore. this is his issue. this is him, in this room, in this very moment - and he yearns for life - he yearns for true human life, he yearns for the unity of the world by everything within human life. every suffering, every fear, every joy, every meaning - he is so hungry for that unity with people. for that feeling of life. and he understands at the end of the book that everyone is united, even blacks and whites. so much is going on in the world at this point - a huge war is about to break out over the world, and even whites are suffering just as much as the blacks. in this moment, he sees the world and every human being, he hears the world outside of his bedroom. and within his loneliness - within his understanding of the world's unity, all he wants is just to express. he wants to connect with the world in some way - he wants to revive that unity. and the largest way he knows how to do this is his words. his writings. and he will write- because he knows that is where he can meet people, that is where he yearns to meet people - through those artistic ideas, through thought, through emotional and intellectual freedom, through understanding of actual human life. and he will do this, he will strive for this, and he will tell and respond to anyone who even gives any sort of response to him, even if it is just a small echo, a minimal response. he will fight and strive to banish the petty american hunger for things that are not real, the hunger that is only blind and ignorant to the life and thoughts around them. he will strive to awaken people to a hunger for life - for truth, for purity, for every kind of freedom - a hunger for the unity of all mankind through their freedom of life. 

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