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Rhetorical Analysis Of Monroe's Motivated Sequence

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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ANDREW JACKSON’S SPEECH

American colonists and the Native Americans of North America have had challenges getting along with each other ever since they encountered early in the 17th century. During the American Revolutionary war they were allies but once the white settlers gained freedom, they started to seek more land, which happened to be the land Native Americans occupied. After a long ferocious thirty year war, President Andrew Jackson issued The first annual address to congress, this article fulfills Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, contains bias and assertion which marginalize and silence the voice of Native Americans.
In the text, Andrew Jackson fulfills Monroe's Motivated Sequence. The first step is a need for a good intro that makes the audience tune into the speech, using background knowledge, the native americans and the united …show more content…

Jackson takes an ethical approach and asks a question when he illustrates this technique. “..And is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian?...” Jackson questions congress, which are all representatives of the settled people. It is ironic that the government presently is trying to save the earth now, when during its civilization process it was doing the opposite, “..What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms,..... and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?” Jackson uses tricolon at the end of this assertion because the cumulative effect of three has a powerful effect on an audience. He does this so congress can believe that the native americans are not using the land to aid humanity in any way

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