Realization

At the end of the book Wright has been chewed up by his former friends in the communist party. They have been trying to get him fired from his jobs because they believe that he went against him. Wright knows that in order to get past this he must try to reconcile with the communist party. He attempts to do just this but his former friends will not even talk to him. Wright then goes to a parade where two white communist members throw him out of the march, and black communists members sit there and do nothing. 

At the end of the book Richard realizes that he must give up his dream of bringing unity and equality to the whites and the blacks. He instead believes that he must "build a bridge of words between me and the outside." Richard thinks that the only way that he can help the situation that surrounds him and follows him in every corner is by writing about his experiences and about the emotions that he has gone through. Instead of fighting it he is exposing the issue.