Women of the late sixties, although some older than others, in Alice Walker's fiction, who exhibit the qualities of the emerging model and in development, are greatly influenced by the civil rights era. Movement. Motherhood is a major theme in modern women's literature, considered a sacred, powerful and spiritual component of a woman's life. Alice Walker does not choose Southern black women as her main protagonists just because she is one, but because she has discovered in tradition and history that they collectively experience an understanding of the oppression which is born to them from a desire to reject the principle and to retain what is difficult. Walker's most developed character, Meridian, is a person who allows "an idea, no matter where it comes from, to enter her life." Meridian's life is rooted in curiosity about what is the morally right thing to do, at the right time and in the right place. Meridian seeks great power, based on her individualistic and personal view of herself as a mother. She seeks answers from her family, particularly the heritage of her maternal ancestors, and searches for her identity through the traditions passed down to her by black women in the South. By exploring the primacy of motherhood, African American writer Alice Walker's novel Meridian changed the lens from a female perspective on how certain experiences affect their interpretations of motherhood. Walker analyzes the tradition and values ​​beneath the historical myth of black motherhood, a myth based solely on true stories of the sacrifices black mothers made for their children. Motherhood is often defined as a habitual set of feelings and behaviors that are activated by pregnancy and...... middle of paper ...... against all obstacles, to live it and not give up any particle without a fight to the death, preferably not his own. And that this existence, in fact the American years, had created them One Life (Meridian, p. 204). In most cultures, motherhood intensifies the social pressure to conform to what the culture says or what tradition dictates; this seems to be driven by levels of modernity or urbanization rather than by the status accorded to norms. of society and the community. Through the concept of "One Life", he motivates Meridian in her quest for physical and spiritual health, societal ills that demean one class to another, one race to another, one gender to another, and ultimately terrorize the life. Meridian is built on the tension between one's beliefs and the societal forces that inhibit the growth of life toward their natural state of freedom..