Chapter 22

In this Chapter Foster talks about blind people and how they generally have a better view of the world then the main character. It is the blind person that shows the main character the proper ways, or sheds true light on whatever subject. At first I thought of blind main characters like Daredevil and the guy from "The Book of Eli" but then I realized how it talked about a side character being blind. The first thing that came to my head was the play "Antigone". Tiresias is the blind guy in this play like mentioned in the chapter, but he is the only one that sees what is the truth and what will actually happen. Introducing a blind man into a play adds irony automatically because it is almost guaranteed that the blind person will be more aware then those that can actually see what is going on. One of the main purposes for making somebody blind is to highlight the ignorance around that man. If a blind man can see the world for what it actually is then why can't a person who has vision? Writers use the blind characters to help make their points clearer and to help point out flaws with regular humans that don't suffer such handicaps.