i still like this paragraph.

 Meridian is inspired by this combination to act as an additional spectacle, at least in Truman’s eyes and in the cynical commentary of an older man who guides Truman through the small-town context of Meridian’s presence and actions:  “That’s when this weird gal that strolled into town last year come in.  She started to round up every one of the po’ kids she could get her hands on.  She look so burnt out and weird in that old cap she wear you’d think they’d be afraid of her—they too young to ‘member when black folks marched a lot—but they not” (6). As Barbara Christian argued shortly after the novel’s publication, Meridian’s presence as a lone spectacle enhances the novel’s reflectiveness. Her “instransigence” draws the reader’s attention to her “resolv[e] to stay within the action of the sixties until she can formulate effective action for the seventies” (209).  Although the children she leads are “too young to ‘member”, they are not “afraid,” suggesting that her action is effective because she manages both to invoke trust and get the exhibit to open to the children (7).  Walker’s use of dialect also suggests a pun—although the children are too young to “‘member,” they are not too young or too alienated from the past to become “members” of Meridian’s nonviolent march