In Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, Black Hawk is writing to demonstrate the effort and energy he has devoted to stand up and fight off the white men. Sadly, he does. It win the fight and explains his feelings using rhetorical devices like similes, imagery, and setting a mood from the atmosphere he describes. There are also many feelings and emotion brought into his final words.
In the first paragraph Black Hawk is preparing to fight, but when it is over he cannot hide the fact that white men have a better defense. He describes it by saying, "The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter." Even with all the support from his nation and the strength from his warriors it was not enough to protect them from the advanced weapons that the white men owned. …show more content…
But they are trying to fight it off because in the end they, the Black Hawk people are the only ones who can try to stop themselves to become hypocrites and adultery like their enemies.
This whole priece of writing created a very dark, disappointing, and torturouse mood. It is caused by how his words get more negative in each paragraph. It is what causes the reader so perspective to see hope but find out it never made it to the finish line. And just like that it shows how Black Hawk felt trying to fight and not give up until there was nothing more he could do. And to demonstrate this he used. Any emotional phrases and words to describe his journey.
After reading his last words anyone can see what he believed and without knowing he used many elements that we know as rhetorical devices that support his claim and
In the first paragraph Black Hawk is preparing to fight, but when it is over he cannot hide the fact that white men have a better defense. He describes it by saying, "The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter." Even with all the support from his nation and the strength from his warriors it was not enough to protect them from the advanced weapons that the white men owned. …show more content…
But they are trying to fight it off because in the end they, the Black Hawk people are the only ones who can try to stop themselves to become hypocrites and adultery like their enemies.
This whole priece of writing created a very dark, disappointing, and torturouse mood. It is caused by how his words get more negative in each paragraph. It is what causes the reader so perspective to see hope but find out it never made it to the finish line. And just like that it shows how Black Hawk felt trying to fight and not give up until there was nothing more he could do. And to demonstrate this he used. Any emotional phrases and words to describe his journey.
After reading his last words anyone can see what he believed and without knowing he used many elements that we know as rhetorical devices that support his claim and