Light vs. Darkness Week 5

At the end of the novel, our invisible man comes full circle to where he was at in the prologue. His process of reaching this place started here and he states, "I was in a deep basement, full of shapeless objects that extended farther than I could see, and I realized that to light my way out I would have to burn every paper in the brief case" (567-68). Here he realizes the only way to find the truth, the light, and to move on with his life into the future is to forget his past, the darkness holding him back, made literal in this sense by the need to burn his old papers from Bledsoe and the Brotherhood. As soon as he does this he notices that the handwriting from the letter he received and that of his new name written on the slip of paper were written by the same person: Jack. He notices this on page 568: "And now seeing the handwriting of the two in the consuming flames I burned my hand and slipped to my knees, starting. The handwriting was the same." He realizes this truth and many others after he forgets his past and moves on with his future. All of the deceit and lies are through with and the truth may emerge now that our invisible man is looking for the truth and throwing out his old ways and the old lies that people told him.