His plan for moral perfection had thirteen virtues which he tried to acquire one by one, he later admitted it was harder than he thought. His motivation was: “I wished to live without committing any fault at any time.”
A propagandist that appeals to the feelings not the reason of his audience. He expected them to respond in outraged emotion.
By using deep and soulful expressive language; words like: country, love, hell, and sacrifice. Phrases like “These are times that try men’s souls” or “Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.” appeal to the readers feeling of outrage and sense of morality.
Nature, more specifically the nature of North America. Bartram has a plain descriptive but vivid style as shown when he writes, “the river...appeared to be one solid bank of fish, of various kinds, pushing through this narrow pass of St. Juan's into the little lake,” and also when he writes, …show more content…
1,4 and 29,32 are elegiac couplets. He alouds to Christianity in 31,32. He uses his pastoral tone in …show more content…
Reb has learned this from the silence between him and his father, he says this about his father: “He taught me with silence...When his people would ask why he was so silent with his son, he would say to them...One learns of the pain of others by suffering one’s own pain.” Reb is now trying to teach Danny, through the silence, to have compassion for them. Danny however wants to learn to be able to see inside a person through phycology not silence, he says: “It (psychology) helps you understand what a person is really like