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One could describe Crèvecoeur as bold within his writing; his opinion is strongly emoted through his use of words and phrases. With a sharp attitude and an unyielding image of the role of man in the differing countries he manages to express his opinion without ever actually stating it. It is made clear that Crèvecoeur sees America as a place of safety for those who decide to flee their unfavorable life in Europe with the use of the words “great American asylum” to describe America in the opening sentence. In order to draw attention to those who flee Europe in search for asylum from the “pinching penury” and the utter nothingness that the country has brought to them, Crèvecoeur questions as to how they could call it their own. Crèvecoeur portrays Europe as a place where no one can prosper and America as a new beginning. …show more content…
In Europe a man with nothing is inevitably nothing, a man unable to grow and succeed. For those unfortunate enough to be born poor in Europe, they were solely provide “the frowns of the rich, the severity of the laws, with jails and punishment.” The land of which they called home gave them nothing at all; it was simply “A country that had no bread for him, whose fields procured him no harvest.” Crèvecoeur compares Europeans in poverty to “useless plants” wanting nourishment but withering away for all they have is desire, followed by acts or desperation; hereby linking the act of relocation to America to an opportunity for them to “take root and

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