What internal conflicts must Meridian come to terms with over the course of the novel, Meridian?

Meridian needs to reconcile the need for change and righting injustice with her abhorrence of violence. She needs to assuage her guilt over leaving her child and defying her mother after being a burden that stole her mother's freedom. Meridian wants redemption. She can only find redemption through a slow journey to try to give voices back to the poor and black people of the South. When Meridian sees that she can help others and that shame and guilt are destructive forces that must be let go of, she begins to recover and moves on.