Rhetorical Analysis Of A Letter From John Downe

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In John Downe’s nineteenth century letter to his wife, he cries for his English family to come converge with him in the United States. Downe employs multiple rhetorical devices throughout his message in order to persuade his spouse to follow in his footsteps. He enters his qualification through a narrative lense and describes his profoundly improved experience in the States. Recounting an exaggerated, favorable encounter with a farmer, he states “...I was welcome to come to his house at any time; they had on the table pudding, pyes... and everything that a person could wish...” (8-12). He conveys an innocent, amazed tone while discussing the striking differences between the behavior of where he originated, and where he has now found himself. The new businessman then provides a rich description of the benefits bestowed upon him in the U.S., indicating a lack of those [benefits] where his family now resides. Providing a solution for his family’s financial deficit, he lists: “...a barrel of cider holding 32 gallons, for 4s.... 100 lbs. Beef for 10 s.... Lamb is about five farthings the pound...” (16-20). Through the heavy use of examples and an educated diction, Downe’s claims serve to reassure his wife of the guaranteed

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English emigrant, John Downe, in his letter addressed to his wife explains why she should move to America with the kids. Downe’s purpose is to convince his wife that America is better than England. He adopts a hopeful tone in order to convey that the trip across the Atlantic ocean is worth the trouble.

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Throughout the letter the author uses many rhetorical strategies to convince the wife to U.S. John Downe the author uses diction, tone, and imagery. Downe uses imagery in a way to convince his wife to come and live in U.S. Downe explains the way that he gets all the food he wants. For example, "they had on the table pudding, pyes, and fruit of all kind." This shows imagery of how he gets all the food he desires. He convinces her by making her imagine all food thatthe eats and will make her want to come, so she can eat as much as he does.

Author John Downe, in a letter to his wife named “My Dear Wife”, illustrates how moving to America would be very beneficial to their family. Downe uses pathos, exemplification, and compare and contrast to try to convince his wife of how America is the perfect country for them. To begin with, a rhetorical element that is evident in the passage is the use of pathos. Downe uses pathos to appeal to his wife’s humanly survival urges. In lines 41-44 the author writes, “…you know that there was nothing but poverty before me, and to see you and the dear children want was what I could not bear.

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