dyccee ead queNion (RO \ye apron Us reer als ‘Question 2 10 2s Qus ae , (Suggested time—40 minutes. This question counts for one-third ofthe total essay section: 4J. Hector St.John de Crévecoeur (1735-1813) was a French aristocrat who traveled widely in the American colonies and bought a farm in New York, where he seted for atime. In this passage from his 1782 collection of essays, Letters from an American Farmer, Crévecoeur defines Americans. In a well-organized essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies Cré-vecoeur uses to make his argument about colonial American society. RQ In this great American asylum the poor of Europe at tachen cna oo European mig have by some means met together and in consequence have fora country where he had nothing? Tie row: of various causes to what purpose should they ask edge ofthe language, the love ofa few kindred at one another what countrymen they are Ala, two, oor a himself were the ony cords that ed him is thirds of them had no county. Cana wetchORG'OS County is now that which gives fm land bre \SanIET abou, who works and Saree Whose fe protection, and consequence: Ubi pants hi patra? is «ccommdal scene of sore affliction or pinching (YQ — 4s_ isthe motto of all emigrants. What then is the AR. Ean that man call England or any other ‘American, this new man? He is either an European ais country? A cou rthe deSEendant oF an European hence that strange (arn whose els procarattine }. txnne of blood wich you wil fd in no oer Ime Tne ut the nso ihahe= RS, county. oul poi out to you a fay whose OF The TaWS_ wT als : 50 grandfather was an Englishman, whoseywife was Toot of Oe exten Buch whose son mined Pencarian and @S - 38 vaety of motives, here present four sons have now four wives oF they care. Everything has tended to regenerate them? ferent nations. He isan American Who, leaving ew laws, a new mode of living, a new social system; “behind him all his ancient prejuaites and manners, here they are become men; in Europe they were asso. ss receives ew ones from the new mode of ife he has many useless plants, wanting vegetative mold! and ‘embraced, the new goverment he obeys, and the new refreshing showers; they withered and were mowed rank he holds. He becomes an American by being down by want, hunger, and war, but now by the received in the broad lap of our great Alina Mater”. >) power of transplantation ike all ther plants they Here individuals ofall ations are melted into a new have taken root and flourished! Formery they were race whose labors and posterity wll one sot numbered in anycivil lists ofthe country, except great changes inthe world. Americans ree mestem | in those of the poo bere they rank a citizens. BY ye Pilgrims who are carrying along with them that great! what invisible ower ss supsng meta mass ofa, sciences, vigor, and industry which phosis formed? By that ofthe laws and that began long since in the eas: they wil finish he Src aay Tc leh nage ie pracy ean Oe meee a yw over ‘hem as they arrive, stamping on them the symbol of Europe; here they are incorporated into one of the adoption; they receive ample rewards for thei labor: §, inet systems of population which has ver appeared these accumulated rewards procure them lands; those and which wil hereafter become distinct by the power lands confer on them the tile of freemen, and to that ofthe different climates they inhabit. title every benefit is affixed which men can possibly tege.This the get operation daly erfomed by. sa v3? ur laws, Fromm whenes proceed these laws? From.our\ 2 Were tere i bread ther is the homeland. government. mnce the government? It is de mw > Cherishng or fostering mother Fourie ciginal genus aad song assev ote people ratified and confirmed by the crown, This is the great chain which inks us all. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE. 13°