Rhetorical Analysis: An Address To The Whites

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. Elias Boudinot and William Apess both fight for the rights of their peoples. In what way are their rhetorical strategies different? Elias Boudinot and William Apess both fight for the rights of their peoples (Native Americans) during the period just before and just after the ratification of The Indian Removal Act. Despite having the same goal, they use different rhetorical strategies to persuade their audience toward their cause. In “An Address To The Whites,” Elias Boudinot attempts to prove the Civility of Native Americans and to prove assimilation to the White Population is possible with time (appeasement). Boudinot notes the invention of an alphabet, the organization of a government, and most importantly a translation of the Bible …show more content…

Joanna destabilizes this definition in a regionalist novel “The Country of the Pointed Firs” because, despite Jewett’s focus on setting and the cultural specificity, Joanna’s story is all about history and a political history that is less than ideal to the American image. Joanna “Lives like a Native” (discussion) preserving the Native’s history just by living on Shell-Heap Island, a place that exists (in the modern eye) as a preservation of history in a region. She is resourceful, using her environment in her house for decorations, rejects the social convention of time, and rejects the Church’s Authority as seen on page 438. By preserving the history of the Natives, she is a persistent reminder of a past that contaminates the idea of the perfect American identity. By preserving history (and a political history with the treatment of Natives), her character is history therefore going against the definition of American literary regionalism. 6. What is the relationship between Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs and her story “The Foreigner”? In what way would the novel be different had Jewett never written “The Foreigner”? The relationship between Jewett’s “The Country of the Pointed Firs” and her story

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