The Third Life of Grange Copeland | Social Concerns
Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland is an extended meditation on the attempts of rural blacks to escape the endless struggle of sharecropping, an economic slavery as profound as the formal slavery abolished by the Emancipation. Walker asserts that sharecropping kills the souls of rural blacks, blighting their lives and destroying their ability to love both themselves and their families.
Walker dramatizes the difficulty of escaping sharecropping through the character of Brownfield, the son of the protagonist, Grange Copeland. When Brownfield gets engaged, he...
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