Family: The Theme Of The Tuohy Family

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- The theme best represented by the Tuohy family is that of kindness. Simply because the Tuohys were kind people, they took a poor, impoverished student into their family, giving him all the benefits their children received growing up in a wealthy family. They arranged for him to have private tutors. When they discovered that he was a talented football player, they fought diligently to follow that he would have the best possible future.

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