J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, a French aristocrat, traveled all over the American colonies. His audience would consist of the people who read Letters from an American Farmer in 1782. Crevecoeur’s diction, metaphors, and rhetorical questions show that his tone is proud for Americans. His purpose of this essay was to praise American society and prove that America is doing great. Crevecoeur starts off his essay by using a rhetorical question “…; to what purpose should they ask one another what countrymen they are?” Crevecoeur does this to get Americans thinking about their history and the history of America. America was colonized by Europe. The first people are Europeans who colonized America. The people who came to America were …show more content…
He states “…; like all other plants they have taken root and flourished!” This was to show the struggles American citizens went through to become an actual American citizen; they created their laws, live a free life, and got to decide what they want to do and when they do it. American colonies started off small and weak, but like the metaphor to plants, America grew strong. Crevecoeur then asks “What then is the American, this new man?” He later responds with, “He is an American…” America has worked hard to separate itself from Europe and become independent. Crevecoeur’s reference to “Alma Mater”, which means mother, is him proving that America is independent enough where it can be its own mother. America is not Europe; it has separated and morphed into something much greater and something to be proud of. Crevecoeur ends his essay by saying, “…into one of the first systems of population which has ever appeared and which will hereafter become distinct by the power of the different climates they inhabit.” Crevecoeur ended with this sentence for a much deeper meaning. Yes, it is the end of the essay, but the diction he used implies that American will only get bigger, stronger, and better. He has high hopes for