Our America By Jose Marti Summary

Words have power. They have the power to either create or destroy, to comfort or inspire rather if its written or verbally. Its determined by how the speaker or the writer tries to convey his or her massage and rather what they hope to achieve with their words. It also demonstrates to the world a brief glance on who people are on the inside. The Cuban writer, Jose Marti evidently establishes his political views through his written piece, “Our America”. Marti’s motivation to write this certain written work is manifested by his choice of words and expressions throughout the essay. Jose Marti fights toward the social injustice his home country was faced with in the time he was actively writing. Marti describes Cuba’s colonializing power as “the …show more content…
The author called for a revolution to the same intellectual public he categorized himself in and pleaded others who were not acquainted to join and be acquainted. “To know the country and govern it in accordance with that knowledge is the only way of freeing it from tyranny.” (Marti 285) Marti reveals that the youth is the next generation that can make innovations towards a better country and there for calls out to them. “Our youth go out into the world wearing Yankees or French- colored glasses and aspire to rule by guesswork a country they do not know. (Marti 284) Marti particular use of language in this live basically calls out the young community and how they are obvious to what is happening around them. “Colored glasses,” can be a reference to seeing the nice and pretty aspect part of life then rather the cold hard truth of suffering and pretense. Marti specifically choses Yankees and French to represent what influences are the most prominent and overbearing. Jose Marti perhaps places his faith in future people are might be able to succeed in what he could not in his