Light vs darkness week 3

In Invisible Man, our protagonist undergoes a rebirthing scene in the hospital where he is "reborn" into this new northern world where whites and blacks are on a more equal level. He starts to change how he looks at the world and of other individuals, especially those who are white and in positions if authority. As he makes his way home from the factory and it's hospital, he states, "I stopped, looking at the buildings down the bright street slanting with sun and shade. I was no longer afraid"  (249). He starts to see the world with new eyes, no longer stuck in an unmovable position allowing "his blindness [to be] his chief asset" (95) to the white men in power. He also now sees the good and bad associated with the world and race relations, hence the prescence of both sun, the good and true, and the shade, the negatives and darkness that result from a certain angle of the sun/ truth. The shade in the prescence of the sun in this sense could also mean the unknown and his fear, which his rebirth and realization has taught him not to be afraid of any longer. It is only through his new eyes from his "rebirth" that he is able to see the works in a new light, in a new perspective and see all of it, especially the bad aspects of the world that he has been conditioned to be ok with.