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A five page paper which looks at the way in which Chestnutt uses the extended bi-racial family as a way of commenting on injustice and inequality in a racially divided society, and the way in which moral and ethical behaviour is defined in terms of the attitudes of the main characters.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLChestnutt.rtf
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characters. Bibliography lists one source. JLChestnutt.rtf "The family and society in The Marrow of Tradition" Research Compiled for Enterprises Inc By ,
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In The Marrow of Tradition, Chestnutt is dealing with a number of wide-ranging themes concerning the notion of
family, social justice, equality and fairness through the close study of one particular family for whom all these elements impinge on their existence and their future potential. Many of the
broad social issues which affected individuals in the period about which Chestnutt writes are delineated through the eyes of the family themselves; they are the victims of injustice at the
hands of the law, at the hands of the bigoted, at the hands of the deceitful.
The complex genealogy of the family, and the way in which white and black interact with one
another, results in a convoluted narrative in which attempts to redress injustice are not always successful and it appears that the only ethical way in which to proceed is, in
effect, to transcend ones personal feelings and take the morally right action even if this is not necessarily of benefit to oneself. For example, when Janet tells her husband that
he must save the life of Olivias son, she is disregarding the wrongs which have been done to her by Olivias family and taking a stance which is based on
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