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The Use of non violent technique in queen's survival during the bondage that leads her into a happy and joyful life in Haley's Queen

This thesis is a study of Alex Haley's novel Queen. In this study
the writer reveals the endurance of Queen who was a mulatto living
in the era of slavery in the United States. In enduring such bad
situation in the bondage Queen showed a way that made her able to
survive. The way which the writer regards as a technique to survive
is called a non violent technique. Queen's understanding of the
technique did not lead her into enormosity against the whites, on the
contrary. Queen was convinced that the way to solve the problem
was only that the black could undergo the suppression without
physical revenge. If there was any protest against injustices, it should
be a peaceful protest.
In this study, the writer wants to reveal Queen's endurance by
using the survival technique as a tool to keep herself survive, and her
reasons in choosing this way. Besides, the writer also wants to
analyze her outcomes. The writer uses the theory of the nature of
slavery to emphasize the bad condition of the slaves during the
slavery period. Aside from that, she also uses the theory of African
American survival technique in Afro American literature to equip
with a background knowledge about African American survival
techniques.
The writer finds out that Queen chose a way to survive, by non
violent protest because she wanted to avoid violence. Queen also
made the Christian faith as the basic for her life's principle and to
face disappointments in life during the bondage. To overcome all her
burdens and problems about racism, she used non violent protest as
her action. To fight for equality of rights she also used non violent
protest and she devoted herself to Christian principles in her life.
Queen also had a good result or outcome by using her survival
technique. Queen with her non violent protest, fighting for rights and
by letting Christian wisdom lead her life's direction, could endure and
bear the suffering. From the analysis above the writer concludes that
Afro Americans had their own tool or way to keep surviving in a
racist world. Survival technique is really needed for the black people
to anticipate the bad condition of racism in order to endure suffering,
hardship and difficulties.