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Chraibi, Driss. Heirs to the Past
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Reactions to Hearing Haj Ferdi's Voice during the Reading of the Will Abe Taleb Rough Draft D-0336-011 1/16/05 In Heirs to the Past, Haj Ferdi, or the Seigneur, was the central figure in his community. Not only the patriarch to his family, but is in a position where most of the people in the surrounding town look up to him not only as a role model, but also out of necessity for life. "My mother emptied the food into a bowl and told one of my nephews to go and distribute it to the poor. He had not far to go; he had only to open the front door and there the poor were." (Chraibi, 50) The poor depended upon the Seigneur for food and distant family members depended upon his charity to avoid becoming impoverished. "All were members of our family, or our wife's family, either cast aside by fate at whose door all...
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