Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Young American”
What is the format of Young American?
Emerson wrote Young American in a hybrid of two formats we have seen before: propaganda, and point/counterpoint.
In Young American, he is trying to sell his point through a propaganda type writing, but he also uses point counterpoint to keep his beliefs strong.
What is the article’s thesis?
The article’s thesis is about expanding the democracy through scinece and ideas, rather than conquest and war.
What other writers would align with Emerson’s beliefs in this essay?
I think Thomas Paine, Whitney Houston, and Thomas Jefferson would align with Emerson.
E.C.- The song “The Greatest Love of All” by Whitney Houston was played because Houston sings about the children of the future, and how everything depends on their ideas, so teach them well. Her lyrics are similar to Young American because Emerson also writes about teaching the children of the future, and how their ideas are important to the way the world ends up.
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