Analysis Of The Gettysburg Address

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Nehal Banik
12-12-13
Period 4
Room 121

The Noble Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address simply conveys the ideas that expands his wisdom of politics and Civil War, and civilizes those who wish to respect the dead that passed away fighting for their country. Abraham Lincoln, a great spokesman, and wise critic, throughout his speech uses many techniques that grasp his audience’s attention and pull them into the scenario at hand. His speech contains miscellaneous information from throughout human history that respects the great men that have fought for this country, and pertains to circumstances that would have been helpful in convincing his audience. The Gettysburg Address uses parallel structure that determines the tone of relaying a message of lost soldiers that fought for their part in the country. He is trying to establish a purpose where the Union needs to succeed and cannot perish before the country is whole again. The Gettysburg Address was written in a form that was meant to show his audience what had happened at Gettysburg; one of the bloodiest and goring battles of the war; and was meant to convey his idea of our nation, and address the people about the peace and sacrifices that have been made so that the war would come to end and the that the nations success would not go down in vain.

The purpose of his speech was to rally the people and spread his idea to the nation; to represent that the ideas that encircled the documents written by the founding fathers, and not let their imposing deaths go in vain. In the text, Lincoln begins to state, “That government of the people, by the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Lincoln translates the morals once taught by the founding fathers; government and democracy will...

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... parallel structure not only are represented without restraint, but they were conveyed in respected manners of the viewer’s bias and were therefore abiding.

The purpose and main ideas of the Gettysburg Address was to honor the brave soldiers that fought in the blood battles, and complete their task that was not finished. He begins to stress the importance of liberty and freedom. He wants the nation to be whole again and united so that they can improve it for the future generations. He tries to convey a message to everyone that they all have a part in the war and when they realize their job they can finally begin to move forward. The Gettysburg Address tells the people of America that even if many are lost, that their specific mission is not finished and there is still much to do before freedom can be portrayed by the people that live henceforth on this continent.

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