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The First Voyage To America Analysis

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In this paper, I will discuss the similarities, and the differences between “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” and “Journal of the First Voyage to America”. Both stories are trying to persuade the readers to reach their personal goal. However, there are a lot of differences between these two stories: different reader, different purpose,... Starting with, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”. The author in his writing is talking about the living condition of the slaves on the ship. He gave lots of details about how harsh and, difficulties it was to survive inside the deck of a cargo ship; In his passage he described “The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself almost suffocated us. This produced copious …show more content…

This book (journal) has written for Queen Isabella and her husband, King Ferdinand of Spain, to convince them to continue funding in his voyages. For this reason, he has listed a lot of details in his journal that relating to valuable property, and described San Salvador’s as a beautiful land and contains things of value. For instance, he has written in his Journal “A thousand different sorts of trees, with their fruit's, were to be met with, and of a wonderfully delicious odor. It’s was a great affliction to me to be ignorant of their natures...”. By this phrases, we can tell that Colombus are trying to convey to the Queen that landscape is beautiful and the people are friendly.In addition, as we can see ;author frequently mention the monetary references to keep financial supporters interested, which is the Queen, and the King of Spain. On the whole, Christopher Colombus had done a great job with keeping his audience interest, by using a careful choice of words, details, and

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