• What does it mean to be American? = More Implicit (Different Versions)• We think of it as a written document but also a document to read out loud in his time. You could see the draft and we can see words scanning it. Looking for the emphasis that falls on each words. Jefferson thought that it is performed = to read out loud. Jefferson has written this text and that is not the way we think of it. It is a text that has a prologue and definitely has a contrast the same way as Tyler.
Shows a different genre. Like an autobiography like Franklin, but a slave narrative. Think about ways how he sounds like other people. We are going to see a way that supplies Equiano as a critique of the white culture. [Pg. 688]The very opening is different. Franklin never makes us to forget him but Equianobeings like “I am like any other people. More claim to REPRESENTATIONthat he represents the whole people. We see a lot of anecdotes. [Pg. 690 –691] = Story of abduction. His sister is being abducted into slavery and into the new world.•Equianodoes in his a lot of genre is that he is faking with the actual existing genre
Anti - Social protest novel. Event hough all 3 authors might agree society is an evil corrupted influence, they have very different ideas about how we should react to it and do with it. [Pg. 540 - 541] Something going on Hester because of alienation. Moment where she is starting to have clarity/ thought and thinking in new different counter cultural ways. “The world’s law is no law for her”. She enjoys the great term = “FREEDOM OF SPECULATION”.
1.The Spider Letter (1723)*Edwards talking about spiders. *Spider letter to talk about laws of nature. And he is pleased with it. *What we sense here is the sort of dominance science. Admiring about spider in the way it moves throughout the world. Moves like this figure 1 figure 2 ~. *The enlightenment / reason / rationality (합리성) / we like the way it reasonably moves through the world. *Laws of nature = Rules of nature. *Also bring us GOD. ( rationalism / reason / god )