As John Quincy Adams travels with his father John Adams, his mother, Abigail Adams senses the struggles he is feeling and wrote him a letter of advice. She uses rhetorical devices such as tone, logic, and persuasion to encourage her son to adapt and overcome to the internal obstacles he is facing on the trip with his father. J.Q Adams is a boy hundreds or thousands miles away from his mom, a boy who wants and needs to hear his mom. Particularly a boy who is not all too thrilled to be traveling to France with his father.
The first rhetorical device A. Adam uses is tone, and in a motherly manner. J.Q Adams is going through one of his biggest struggles that he may ever face, and if I were away from my home and comfort, there is no body I would rather hear from than my momma. She knows that life is hard and it is not always fair. By letting him know she “should have not urged him… when [he] appeared so adverse” makes J.Q Adams feel better. It lets him know his mother is not doing this to harm him in anyway. Using the motherly tone can make her…show more content… Adams uses is persuasion, a mother’s best tool. If J.Q Adams mom didn’t think he had the ability to become a better man from traveling with his father, she wouldn’t have sent him. But a mother can see what nobody else’s eye can see. A. Adams uses other successful men to persuade her son to keep forth. If “Cicero…had not been roused, kindled, and inflamed” he would have not known how to adapt and overcome. As he learned these important assets, he was able to overcome the “tyranny of Catiline, Verres, and Mark Anthony”. The harder J.Q works the better he will become. If it came easy we wouldn’t have to “[contend] with difficulties”. A. Adams uses “all [of] history [can] convince [us]” hard work produces “great virtues”. A. Adams persuades her son to not “lie dormant” be a man who can look into the mirror and be proud of the person looking back. When receiving a “blessing of heaven” don’t waste
