In this essay, the writer J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur is writing to people during the time period 1782. The purpose for writing this article was to promote Americans as Europeans who have gone into another country because they weren’t happy with their current standing in their own country. While, reading this essay, the author’s inspirational tone would have persuaded anybody in 1782 that America is just as good if not better than European countries. Although Crevecoeur’s wrote this essay in 1782, his diction, similes, and other rhetorical devices still have an impact on the world today. In the essay, the writer states that “in Europe they were as so many useless plants, wanting vegetative mold…” by using this quote the writer is talking about the people of America before they arrived like how they were just trying to survive in their homelands and they weren’t thriving because they were at the bottom of the social ladder and they need the right soil to grow and prosper. The essay also states that “the love of a kindred as poor as himself were the only cords that tied him” what the writer means by this is that they only thing that is holding these people to that country are their loved ones. Family was everything in that time period and some members either didn’t want to start over with a new life or they were …show more content…
In the last sentence of the essay, the writer states “The Americans were once scattered all over Europe; here they are incorporated into one of the finest systems of population” when the writer stated this it sent a powerful message. Even though they were from different European countries, they all had the same