To paraphrase Zora Neale Hurston, it felt like I had to have gone there to know there, and therefore, a great deal of the book felt as if it had a very particular audience (that was not this reader) in mind. It is set in the era of the civil rights’ movement of the sixties in Georgia (the state not the country). Like Meridian’s father, Walker has an abiding love of and respect for Native Americans and sees their plight as instructive and an important correlative to the black experience in the United States throughout the centuries. On Shmoop's internal Authors That Will Probably Make You Wanna Cry list, Alice Walker is a perpetual top-ranker. Walker wrote the novel at a time when many young black people were shifting away from supporting the practice of nonviolence and civil disobedience that had characterized the early years of the movement and had begun to take on more militant and extreme positions thereby alienating some supporters.

Meridian is plagued by a mysterious inherited illness, much like epilepsy, which parallels and triggers her spiritual and physical transformation.Meridian's acts on behalf of the black community in a small town in Alabama is to force the end of the flooding that menaces the children. And amid the chaos of social upheaval, Meridian discovers who she is - a woman capable of great courage, resilience and hope. Meridian" is set in post civil rights black America but reaches back deeply at least two generations, and sometimes as far back as 1800's slavery. I rate this book with some of the finest books I have ever read and I have always been an avid reader, so many, many fine books have gone through my hands and into my mind.

We learn the story of her parents, grandparents and even people in her community who shaped her life. Anlatımı bir nebze sevme ve güçlü bulmuş olsam da karakterlere bir türlü ısınamamam kitabı sevemememe yol açtı. Working in voter registration campaigns even while dealing with a debilitating illness, Meridian learns how far she can and will go to further the cause, and keeps her beliefs close at hand to give herself strength. 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. In this fun spin on the party game "Desert Island," Walker lists the books and music that she wouldn't be able to live without.However, this is a story of a powerful story of race in America made very personal -- similar to my novel and different. Meridian's nonviolent methods, though seemingly less radical than the methods of others, prove to be an effective means of furthering her beliefs.

The story is not just Meridian’s it is shared with Lynne, a white Jewish woman, from the North, who wants to help the civil rights’ activists. At the time, Atlanta was a hotbed of civil rights activism, but like the young women of Saxon, Spelman’s students were viewed as ladies in training, too refined and upstanding to throw themselves into the fray of social protest. The novel gives an understanding of the distortion experienced in a relationship affected by racism. Meridian sluit zich in de jaren zestig aan bij de beweging voor burgerrechten en voert in het diepe zuiden van Amerika een strijd voor emancipatie en gelijke rechten. Presenting Our Bodies, Laying Our Case: The Political Efficacy of Grief and Rage during the Civil Rights Movement in Alice Walker's Meridian.

Rebellion, he argued—the act of one who says no, who says, “There is a limit beyond which you shall not go”—brought the idea “We are” into the world.