St. Jean De Crevecoeur Analysis

The early explorers and settlers of the New World wrote letters and manuscripts to encourage settlement and to ensure readers that their ventures were prosperous. Some of the early letters written of the New World focus on exploiting natural resources such as gold. Others placed on religious freedom as well as the opportunity to converting the heathen inhabitants. Most of these writings expressed not only the opportunity in the new land but also the strife toil and the daily struggle. All but for St. Jean De Crevecoeur, he seemed to only highlight the wonderment and positive side of this American land. His Letters From an American Farmer series extolled and promoted the American while omitting the reality of the struggle. De Crevecoeur utilized …show more content…
He describes the rough way of life as a refreshing change from crowded streets of the modernized cities an Englishmen would leave after traveling to the New World. Here the man can cast off the trappings of society and their constraints to become something new and fresh. De Crevecoeur says it as such “Here are no aristocratical families, no courts, no kings, no bishops, no ecclesiastical dominion, no invisible power giving to a few a very visible one; no great manufacturers employing thousands, no great refinements of luxury” (De Crevecoeur). Religious freedom is examined at length speaking to this. Leaving the reader to believe that there was no religious persecution within the new colonies. Never mentioning such events as witch hunts or trails in which people were putted to death because of their unusual practices or beliefs. De Crevecoeur describes the struggle of life between the wildlife and man something of a poetic dance in which the man is molded by nature. He does not reveal the reality of the struggle between nature and the pioneer settler. The reality that the culmination of this dance often results in the death of the settler by means such as starvation or the gruesome mauling of a