John De Crevecoeur Rhetorical Analysis Essay

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, a French aristocrat, wrote this essay after the Revolutionary war for all the world to read, most importantly the European nations. He wrote this essay to persuade people of other nations to immigrate to the Americas. Throughout this essay he uses strong diction and metaphors to persuade these people to move here. He begins his essay by stating that “a country that had no bread… no harvest…” He uses this statement to show the world that a nation that does not provide for their people cannot be their homeland. He encourages these people who have been mistreated by their nation to move to America so they can start a new life where they could be treated equally. He then states that when these immigrants come