Meridian (W&N Essentials)

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Once, an old man, whose radical son had been killed while working for the movement, addressed the congregation. Alice Walker’s second novel, “Meridian” (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), appears twenty-five years after Albert Camus’s “The Rebel,” a book that grew from Camus’s conviction that in the modern world every political act leads directly to murder. Join now to access our Study Guides library, which offers chapter-by-chapter summaries and comprehensive analysis on more than 5,000 literary works from novels to nonfiction to poetry. Meridian mengisahkan perjuangan seorang perempuan bernama Meridian -as usual kulit hitam- dengan cita-citanya mensosialisasikan salah satu hak azasi manusi -pemilu-. Lynne seeks out Truman only one time, to let him know that their daughter has been attacked and is in the hospital.

Additionally, Meridian’s Saxon College is loosely based on Spelman College, the all-Black women’s college in Atlanta where Walker started her formal education in 1961. Dia juga bisa menggambarkan dengan jelas perasaan hati setiap tokoh, dan motivasi mereka dalam melakukan tindakan terkecil sekalipun, serta prasangka-prasangka mereka yang sungguh membuat kita terhenyak. Although Truman and Meridian briefly resume sexual relations, Truman continues to pursue his budding relationship with Lynne.This book was a challenging read leaving many of the supposed great mysteries of the book unexplained or dealt with inadequately in my opinion. Truman does not understand the mysterious illness that grips her, causing her to experience fainting spells and paralysis. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Perjuangannya bukan hal yang gampang, karena ternyata tantangan itu bukan hanya datang dari perlakuan kaum kulit putih yang diskriminan (which is always beautifully written by Alice), tapi dari para kulit hitam sendiri. A reflection of the struggle faced every day by African Americans and the hardships also faced by those who tried to support them.

Walker's style is cleverly dreamy, so that you read the bloodthirsty horrors of the time in a rather dissociated state, drifting back and forth from one time to another in a seemingly formless fashion.American author Alice Walker’s second novel, Meridian (1976), has been described as encapsulating Walker’s views on the modern civil rights movement, focusing primarily on the psychological impact rather than social or political. All this, along with the connections that her parents have made and the connections that Meridian is being asked to make—connections to the grace of gospel music, to damnation by the crimes of history, to the purgatory of committing oneself to murder—is out of her reach.

An alternate meaning, “distinctive character,” applies just as well to the novel’s protagonist and namesake.The majority of black townspeople were sympathetic to the Movement from the first, and told Meridian she was doing a good thing. It is often dark and depressing especially when some characters, particularly Meridian, seem to throw away their opportunities or act rather foolishly, so if you want to read a light or happy novel, this isn't for you. Meridian is a woman character but also she is the Civil Rights movement and all other characters and locations are their involvement and relationship to it. Although set in the 60s and published in the 70s, the subject matter (feminism, civil rights and identity) are as current as ever.