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Other R Ideas: Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Rhetoric
I was leaning more toward Reasoning or Rhetoric here, but the selections were pretty limited, and most were very short (one or two were very long) or already used for other letters (my own fault, could've planned better).
Summary: JOHN BROWN WAS SO GREAT!
Bonus: Historical Background:
Commentary: "I trust that you will pardon me for being here." Literally? Is this a speech? Or metaphorically in this writing? So many questions in sentence one. (It's a speech. I looked.)
Beyond that, I had a few of these sorts of pieces in 15MAD, "Look how awesome X was!" They were bad then, they're bad now. Rambly, disjointed, long on boasts and repetition, and short on specifics. Thoreau is possibly even more interested in insulting everyone else than he is puffing up Brown. He comes around a bit in the end, when he moves into trying to justify Brown's raid, but even then he keeps ranting about Brown's family and ignoring the other people with him. That's a choice, but especially a choice since some of them were fugitive slaves, which is kind of the whole point...
Mini Review: 1/5 Please stop writing these.
t can be both, no? Speech and writing. Thanks you for posting something interesting. I pulled the tab to continue after work.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! It looks like it was a speech first. Mostly, I'm just bummed that Thoreau didn't do better with it. John Brown is an awesome guy! Leading a slave revolt? Hell yeah! But Ol' HD has always been pretty overrated in my opinion.
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