Meridian Chapter 16 Summary

Truman and Lynne: Time in the South

  • Here's the beginning of Part II: Truman Held.
  • Truman is watching Lynne sit on a front porch while a group of black children comb her hair. He considers taking a picture of the scene, but shifts his lens to the house's "broken roof" (2.16.1).
  • Lynne has come to think of "the black people of the South" as "Art" (2.16.3). What does that mean?
  • Although Truman has lost his passion for the Civil Rights Movement, Lynne has not. Two years after the murder of several civil rights workers in 1964, they decide move down to the backwoods of Mississippi to do their part.