Analysis Of Letters From An American Farmer By Crèvec Slauur

Crèvecœur a French immigrant who made his way to America was an established author but his most influential work was “What Is an American?” from his book “Letters from an American Farmer”. In the excerpt from the book Crèvecœur discusses what an American really is and how a new American lives in the new world. His biggest point is that America is a mixture of many cultures that have left their prejudices behind in order to co-live and create a great nation. Crèvecœur’s idea of an American is one that has come from a great European nation that has bred and created a new race of people, evidence in this quote from his excerpt, “they … of English, Scotch, Irish French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. … this promiscuous breed, … now called Americans have arisen.” From his quote it’s clearly evidenced that he thinks that Americans are of great breeds. He concludes the passage with telling the readers that America has become a safe haven for the poor people of European countries, the downtrodden, and those who have had their religion restricted and that they have come together to once again become great. While agreeing that an American is an immigrant, he leaves a great many nations out that are not European. To me America is a nation of so many cultures and ideas that work together to create a working harmony that you cannot leave the …show more content…
Telling the reader that in order to start a new life a true American leaves behind all past heritage to start a new one. That immigrants can receive humble kindness, and true kinship with one another in America. Crèvecœur is relating all of this to his own life as an immigrant giving up his own past to start a new future that is vastly different from what it would have been if he had not