Tradition helps with one's desicions, or how he/she reacts to different situations. In the poem, We Who Carry The Endless Seasons, the daughters of the island are expected to marry within the islands. "...a boy from the islands...and from a good family too..like shadows attached to our feet we cannot walk away." (Cerenio, 16-21) The author mentions that she feels attatched to this tradition. Her tradition

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