Realization

Wright goes to the May Day Parade, but cannot find who he is supposed to march with. An old party friend tells him that he can march with them. Wright says no, but the other many insists. He is then attached and kicked out of the parade by white communists while his black communist friends watch. He goes home, feeling alone because what he was trying to believe in rejected him. He comes to the conclusion that people, no matter the differences, will never unite. Despite his discouragement, he decides he's not going to stop trying. As he says, "I would hurl into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if and echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of inexpressibly human." By saying this he means that no matter what happens, he'll respond and not give up. I agree with Wright that people will probably never come together despite differences. I also think his decision to not give up because of this situation is good considering that it seemed like he spent a lot of the book feeling sorry for himself.