Example Post and Reply Read the following example post and exemplar response to a classmate to help guide you as you complete your own rhetorical précis and respond to a classmate. Example Post Rhetorical Précis for Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s “Letters of an American Farmer” The Context: Hector St. John de Crevecoeur; essay; “Letters of an American Farmer”; 1782 (colonial) The Verb: persuade The Why: The author wants other Europeans to immigrate to America like he did so that they can experience success through hard work rather than being bound by social rank The How: Juxtaposition and Rhetorical Questions Thesis: In Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s 1782 essay, “Letters of an American Farmer,” the writer seeks to persuade Europeans to immigrate to America by relying upon juxtaposition and rhetorical questions which contrast his readers’ current measure of success based on social rank with the early-American model of achievement based on hard work. Rhetorical Analysis MediumActive VerbText's ClaimSpecific PurposeRhetorical Choices essayseeks to persuadeEuropeans need to immigrate to America to experience a new type of independence that is not dictated by social rank and economic status.To persuade other Europeans to immigrate to AmericaJuxtaposition, Rhetorical Questions 4-5 Sentence Paragraph with Analysis and Evaluation In Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s 1782 essay, “Letters of an American Farmer,” the writer seeks to persuade Europeans to immigrate to America by relying upon juxtaposition and rhetorical questions which contrast his readers’ current measure of success based on social rank with the early-American model of achievement based on hard work. The “farmer” begins with a series of rhetorical questions. He asks fellow Europeans and Englishmen to consider their status as “countrymen” in their homeland, pointing out that they feel no connection to their country as they “starve” because their “fields [produce for them] no harvest,” and they are “met with nothing but the frowns of the rich.” De Crevecoeur’s negative diction such as “starve” and “frowns of the riches” establish the contrast that follows as he begins to discuss the opportunities available to the American farmer. In the New World, a farmer feels connected as a vested citizen, and his labors provide enough food for his family. Crevecoeur argues that the American is a “new man, who acts upon new principles.” The new man is able to “entertain new ideas, and form new opinions” and his work is “rewarded by ample subsistence.” Thus, according to de Crevecoeur, an immigrant’s destiny rests on a different value system—one that is not connected to his social status. His message and rhetorical choices must have been powerful persuaders to his readers who would have clearly been able to recognize the difference between their current impoverished and frowned upon state and the rewarding, “honorable” status that their friend says awaits them in the New World. Text Citation: St. John de Crevecoeur, Hector. “Letters from an American Farmer (1782); from ‘Letter III: What Is an American.’” The Renewable Anthology of Early American Literature, https://open.maricopa.edu/earlyamericanliteratureanthology/chapter/from-letters-from-an-american-farmer-1782-from-letter-iii-what-is-an-american/.