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Keeping this is mind as a starting point, as it were, makes it easier to understand the relationships and the dynamics of how these work in the novel. On one hand, the condition connects her directly with her father and great-grandmother, who suffered the same burden. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I also was told a lot I didn't know or just don't bother to consider and was grateful for the lesson. If the question of murder is a question of knowledge, and if experience is knowledge, then inherent in Meridian’s genealogy and in the legends to which she has attached herself is a knowledge she cannot match.

children wade in the ditches behind their houses, where the city without warning flushes the reservoir of excess water.

Rather, many individuals from a variety of groups and backgrounds share a common history of exploitation, guilt, suffering, violence, and, ultimately, freedom, triumph, and acceptance. There was no flow or progression to the narrative, dialogue was scarce and—if it were an essay—the thesis lacked a focused conviction. 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. Truman struggles to understand the mysterious illness that has taken hold of her, causing her to experience fainting spells and paralysis.

Meridian's life is a testament to the power of determination, the importance of love and forgiveness, and the ability to become the best version of ourselves. It's very interesting to see the growth from a change in thought, to fliers voter registration and sit ins. The illness becomes a means for Meridian to suffer, to perform penance for this ambiguous wrong she felt she has done.

There is so much more, for instance society's warped conception of what motherhood should be, the nature of revolution and how survival fits into that, and more. Although the 1976 novel would not reach the heights of popular success that The Color Purple would six years later (having Oprah make her film debut in the adaptation certainly doesn't hurt), Meridian touches on the same ideas that made that novel so famous.

Some critics thought that Walker used Meridian to showcase her womanist, as opposed to feminist attitudes. For it is now a question of deciding if it is possible to kill someone, whose resemblance to ourselves we have at last recognized and whose identity we have just sanctified. In an Alice Walker book, Alice is a good story teller but you won't read one sentence that within its lines she isn't try to teach you a lesson.However, it is no doubt a book that deserves to be read and to be admired for the author’s motivations in light of the social dynamic at the time she wrote it (1970s), if not for its idiosyncratic presentation and elusive syntax. In the novel, we follow the life of Meridian Hill, an activist caught in the chaos of the Civil Rights Movement. Meridian, the protagonist, is the most interesting, an attempt to make real in contemporary terms the notion of holiness and commitment. She doesn’t really know why; there is some depth of knowledge she lacks, will perhaps always lack, which she senses is a prerequisite to murder.

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