Callyn Hogan

Crandall 2

17 December 2019

Rhetorical Analysis; Revised

Crevecoeur Analysis

In the late 18th century, the American colonies were brewing with newly revitalized

people full of hope and ambition. There are many counts and journals of what life was truly like

in these 13 supple colonies. One of them was written by French Aristocrat, J. Hector Saint John

de Crevecoeur. He claims that Americasn have created one of the finest systems of systems

population, in which the diversity of the inhabitants and culture is so rich it is unlike any other.

Crevecoeur uses ethos, pathos, and logos to clearly define his claim.

Rhetoric is the art of portraying your thoughts and feelings with an effective, literary

background. Crevecoeur uses a multitude of rhetorical strategies to carry his idws along.

However, the most predominant devices he uses are ethos, pathos, and logos. He begins his

journal by strongly stating statistical facts. He writes, “two-thirds of them had no country”

(Crevecoeur 4-5). The French Aristocrat uses numbers for the validity of this fact. He is stating

that “the poor of Europe have by some means met together and in consequence of various

causes” (Crevecoeur 1-3). With this, readers can infer that America is the first home the lower

class whom fled Europe has had. The next device he uses laws to make a set claim to act as the

superior of validation. Crevecoeur states, “The laws, the indulgent laws, protect them as they

arrive, stamping on them the symbol of adoption; they must receive ample rewards procure them

lands; those lands confer on the title of freemen, and to that title of enemy benefit is affixed
which men can possibly require” (Crevecoeur 27-33). This supports the authors claim in which

America has one of the finest and most just systems ever known to man. These lines state that

just systems ever known to man. These lines state that the law supports the immigrators and one

can start fresh in a new world with a clean past. The last rhetorical strategy this brilliant author

uses is an emotional trigger. At the end of his count, he writes a sentimental and empowering

piece in which he talks about the new people ridding any tension between cultures and

ethnicities, and rather merging them to create a new one. He writes, “He is an American who,

leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, embraced, the new government

obeys, and the new rank he holds” (Crevecoeur 53- 57). He is stating that these people seeking a

new life, are dropping everything from their pasts to be able to start a new, happy life. A couple

sentences later, he also writes, “there individuals of all nations are melted into a new race”

(Crevecoeur 59-60). Here in the colonies, French men are marrying English women and all

social prejudices are broken. America is now the land of the free and a clean slate for any

European’s who aspire to have a new life.

So, the talented scribe uses the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, and logos to cause

his journal convey the audience that America was one of the finest systems in the world. It’s

cultural diversity and ethnic merging created a powerful country with brilliant future leaders. In

the colonial American society was far more underrated than what it turned out to be and

Crevecoeur depicted this through rhetoric in his 1782 collection of essays.