What Are The Similarities Between Jewett And Charles Chesnutt

The authors Sarah Orne Jewett and Charles Chesnutt both stand up for populations not entirely seen as a people. Sarah Orne Jewett takes a stand for the community of nature she lives within and the animals she spends all her time with. Jewett is at one with the nature, she is there voice in a time where others are trying to take away their songs. Charles Chesnutt is an African American author giving a voice to slaves and slavery. Chesnutt is writing to shine a light on the injustices acted upon the people of his common ancestry, his people. Jewett and Chesnutt seek to give these groups voices by writing and bringing attention to the problems they faced. Their stories may have been fictions but they were written to simulate life situations or

Chesnutt is appealing to the senses of his white readers as well as his African American readers. He urged his readers to realize that slaves were people, they were equal. In “The Passing of Grandison” Chesnutt show us this by having Grandison run way with his whole family, “…not only Grandison, but his wife, Betty the maid; his mother, aunt Eunice; his father, uncle Ike; his brothers, Tom and John, and his little sister Elise, were likewise absent from the plantation;” Chesnutt wants his readers to recognize the white-washing, denying, and glossing over that happening to an era that caused a lot of pain. He encourages his readers to see past the lost cause ideal and see that nothing has changed during this period of reconstruction. These groups are unable to represent themselves in these times so Sarah Oren Jewett and Charles Chesnutt made it their mission to give these groups a