Crevecoer

(Letter III) According to Crevecoeur, what does America look like? What language is used to describe the landscape, how does that language operate in the text to make patterns, and why is that significant?

In Letters from an American Farmer, a gorgeous picture of early American life is painted for the reader, which portrays America as an almost perfect society. From the description of the wonderfully simplistic life of a farmer to joyous effects of a melting pot society one might be reminded of a sales ad. “Welcome to my shores, distressed European; bless the hour in which thou didst see my verdant fields, my navigable rivers, and my green mountains!”(650) That sounds very in...