Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Rage and Rebellion of Grange Copeland in Alice Walker’s the Third Life of Grange Copeland

Dr. N. Seraman, A. R. Thillaikkarasi

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Alice Walker’s first novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland exposes the pattern of terror over a span of sixty years in the lives of black family of sharecroppers. Grange, the little character of the novel represents the soul of southern African Americans. In his first stage of life, he is seen as a man of suppressed thought, he feels less than a man in a land where his entire family is indebted to the white boss. Grange’s persistent faithlessness and his increasing frustration, he left his family. However, in his second and third stages of life, some extraordinary changes happened in his life, and he is able to eak out the bondage of socially and personally accepted oppression. Finally, progression of his thoughts and actions represent the possibility of men who lift themselves and their fellow human out of their constraints through their self–awareness. Here Grange is in process of becoming aware of his self.

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Dr. N.Seraman, A.R.Thillaikkarasi Rage and Rebellion of Grange Copeland in Alice Walker’s the Third Life of Grange Copeland Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.VI June 2013

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