Angels And Ages Adam Gopnik Analysis

In Angels and Ages, Adam Gopnik recounts the narrative of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who where born on the same day and have impacted our present day society. Adam Gopnik, is a prominent American writer who became well known through his writing on arts and culture. He's won numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. Gopnik analysis Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, although have many differences have on common thing, and that it is they have shaped our modern life. Through learning Lincoln's mind, Darwin's eye and both throughout history, Gopnik is able to prove the impact they have caused. It begins on February 12, 1809 when two baby boys are born, both miles part from each other. Charles Darwin was the fifth of six children, naturally introduced to comfortable home however to a family that was a long way from "safe," with a …show more content…
For years on out historians fought over what Lincoln would write and say. Although there exists two drafts of the Gettysburg address there's been debates on what Lincoln really did say. In Gabor Borrit, book concerning the Gettysburg address, he points out, that there was a difference between what people heard and what's was a being reported. For example, in Centraila Sentinel, they reported the speech to start with " ninety years ago". Another argument was over weather Lincoln said ' conceived in Liberty" or " concentrated to liberty" in the Gettysburg Address. The obsession over Lincoln's language is because the belief the he was somewhat semi-divine due to his influence on history. Gopnik compares Lincoln to Jesus, who were both short lived humans. Like Jesus people have tried to find the true meaning of Lincoln's words. According to Gopnik, Lincoln is a man full of words and that his language is bigger than any other. His words are very " rhetoric" meaning that it's not of what he says but the style he says it