Hope in Alienation

What it is hope? What can hope bring to us? For normal people, hope might be just a part of their life, that can make their life more interesting and push them forward. However, for people who been alienated by the society, hope is the only thing that they can have, and been able to hold on. They fight for their dreams, base on the tiny hope that they have and without the help from the society. They might be invisible, but their hope light them up until one day the society can finally start to notice them.

In the story Invisible Man, the invisible man lights up a lots of light bulbs in his room, and believes that “the truth is the light and light is the truth”. Yes, light is the basic of everything, and even the invisible man needs it and loves it. Without the light, the shadow does not exist, and there will no meaning for invisible man. It not only represents the warm, but also the hope inside the invisible man that wishes the fair chance for color people that as same as the white people. The invisible man uses his own way to “punish” people who does not respect the alienation people, cases like racial invisibility. He has a deep understanding and connections with all the things that happening around him, like the music that he is hearing, he makes the connection with music, and questions if that is possible to make a music also invisible. To be invisible does not mean to be left out by the society, but to use another way to experience the reality world with a different identity position. As the light still following the invisible man, he is living for himself and using his “superpower” to make his life as meaningful as possible with his lights, which is the symbol of the hope, to makes himself become visible and important for the society.