Realization

At the end of the novel Richard came to the realization that the communist party and many others fighting for what they thought justice was were blind.  Richard states, "there're blind, I said to myself.  Their enemies have blinded them with too much oppression."  The communist party had rejected Richard for no legitimate reason, and Richard now knew that there was no point in fighting to be apart of there world.  He saw how corrupt they actually were even though the party didn't even realize that they had any issues.  They were fighting for rights but at the same time they were taking rights from others.  Richard realizes that people were so blinded by anger and hostilities from others that no ones was seeing threw clear lenses anymore.  All their priorities were in the wrong places.  Richard excepted that this was a reality and there was nothing he could do about it.  He was not angry with this because he knew that they could no longer control their irrational behavior.  Instead Richard become wrestles and anxious because he was striving so hard to figure out a way to express the actual reality of what was happening in the world in a way that people could understand.