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The Idea of love, women and women's love in james Baldwin's if beale street could talk

This thesis is the study of women and love in James Baldwin's If Beale Street
Could Talk. Women and love have an important role in helping the main characters'
struggle, in this case Fonny and Tish' struggle, to solve their problem, that is to find
the way to free Fonny from jail and from the false accusation. There are two problem
in the novel, first the effort to get justice for Fonny, and second to fight Hie racial
hatred and prejudice in the form of injustice toward the main character people.
Through the love of the female characters, the writer wants to find out how the
women's love helps the main characters to survive. The female characters' supporting,
caring, comforting, and encouraging attitudes influence the way the main characters
deal with the problem. In analyzing the loving qualify of the female characters, the
writer uses the theories of love, theories of women's love, theories of
characterization, the psychological approach, and literary criticisms on James
Baldwin and his works. The analysis shows that the acts of the major female
characters and the main characters express their true love to each other. Finally, the
writer concludes that love has the power to solve the main characters' problem
Furthermore, women through their loving acts, also has an important role in solving the
main characters' problem. Love strengthens Fonny and Tish as the main characters, in
surviving from the pain and suffer in their life. Love still becomes the biggest support
for those who suffer.