1. What is Crevecoeur's answer to his question, "What is an American?"
2. In what ways does Crevecoeur portray the American as an heroic innocent, as a kind of new Adam in a new world garden of Eden?
3. What characteristics of the American does Crevecoeur claim will result in America's success?
4. Does Crevecoeur see a role for America in the world? If so, what?
5. What do you think of Crevecoeur's statement that, in the time of his writing, America "is the most perfect society now existing in the world"?
6. What important elements and ideas of neo-classic thought do you find in Crevecoeur's letter? |
