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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn The Third Life of Grange Coneland, Alice Walker distinctly stretches
out the customs, natural features, and folk heritage of the South in which she
portrays how black women strive toward self-realization in a hostile environment
(Perkins 2037). Most of the time, Walker?s black women in the novel, Margaret,
Mem, and Josie are perpetually faced, both, to physical and emotional battle in
their own home. They abide in an unfavorable world where slavery, and violence
as well as brutality really reach the peak. Nevertheless, the black female
characters here are manifested as strong heroines who possess solid inner power
so that they arc capable to front such a pathetic condition. An outstanding black
critics, Arthur P. Davis identifies that inner power as their survival technique, a
technique that is always applied by all minority groups. He asserts that survival
technique always exists in black literature from the eighteenth century down to
the present (Davis 673). This thesis would analyze how Margaret, Mem, and
Josie cope with their own men?s brutality and why they carry on such the same
way as well as analyze the difference of their style in their same way in coping
with their men?s oppression. Therefore, this thesis employs Davis? survival
technique as the principal theory to analyze Margaret, Mem, and Josie?s
deportment in facing their inimical neighborhood. Furthermore, literary theory of
conflict, of characterization, and of setting would be the other devices used in the
analysis. Theories of psychology would also be included in this thesis since it
closely related to the black women?s characters, a weighty element which
constitutes the influential factor in providing a deep and relevant analysis at the
end, it is discovered that the female characters, Margaret, Mem, and Josie are
those who everlastingly accept all their severe anguish caused by their own men?s
brutality. The dissimilarity of human characters and of unpleasant experiences
they have, understandably, creates variant reactions while accepting their men?s
bad conduct .