Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

(Jazmin Kittleson)

I believe that Hector St. John de Crevecoeur did the best job in explaining “America” as we do know it today. Not only was his writing most inspirational to me, but his writing was the most well spoken and easiest to understand. Some might argue that his knowledge of “America” might not be the best because he was born in France, and considering he was the Tory British loyalist, he was originally loyal to the British crown. However he steps away from the British loyalist and came to America. Even though he was not born in America I really like how he defines “America” in his book of letters of a life of an American Farmer, even though not every American was a farmer many were and that is where the hardship came from. Farmers were almost like the base of everything, even though they worked the hardest and made the least without them many other things would not have been. One main way in how he shows American in how it is with all the different cultures and religions, and how many different neighbors were of all different cultures and religions. He shows celebration of diversity in cultures throughout one land and in what we know now as the “melting pot,” many Americans were of different culture and even though some of them had many differences and dislikes, most of them came together as one and were able to tolerate one another.