In establishing a tone both writers do an incredible job, they both understand how to convey their points to their audience and have clear and distinctive styles. Furthermore, I will be contradicting their styles by breaking down their tone, diction, and their purpose as my main topic of this essay. As a brief summary of the better compression of readers ‘Samuel's Memory’ by Michael Rutledge is a short story on the perspective of Samuel as he and his family are forced off his land, while Andrew Jackson's ‘Message to Congress ‘On Indian Removal’’ (1830) is an address of much the same length by the current head of state at the time.
The tone is an important factor in writing as it sets up the general mood of your piece. Both the writers of ‘Samuel's Memory’ by Michael Rutledge and President Andrew Jackson's ‘Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'’ (1830) use tone in very different ways such as the formal and direct writing of President Andrew Jackson's address. As for example, Andrew Jackson establishes this tone with “It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation”, gives the opening a direct and jaunty tone yet it still maintains its formality. Albeit the story Michael Rutledge tells is a far more saddening one. He establishes tones of loneliness and hatred. As an example, he writes “I wish it were them walking in this misery and I were watching them” and “We bury her in a shallow grave by the road. I will never forget that lonesome hill of stone that is her final bed, as it fades from my sight”; these lines establish clear meanings of hatred and loneliness.
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Purpose is the reason for which something is done. The purpose is what shapes your writing, a writer without purpose is nothing, Furtherance meaning nothing worth reading is written without it. So it is that these two pieces are very similar in the point that their purpose contradicts one another. ‘Samuel's Memory’ by Michael Rutledge is a telling story on the memory of his grandfather who experienced and condemns what has happened to him. As is evident in an earlier used example, “I wish it were them walking in this misery and I were watching them”. The purpose is not quite hard to find as it appears in the title of his paper in which Samuel’s memory of his walk on the trails appears in the authors paper ‘Forgiveness in the Age of Forgetfulness’. It seems that he wants people to remember what the native people of this land had gone through. On the other hand, the purpose was the polar opposite in Andrew Jackson's ‘Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'’ (1830). President Andrew Jackson’s purpose was to convince the American populace that they had done the right thing, this is evident in “Is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian? Is it more afflicting to him to leave the graves of his fathers than it is to our brothers and children?”. This argument that they were inferior to the white man of the time coupled with the American dream of ‘manifest destiny’ led to the overarching purpose of Andrew Jackson’s address to Convince Americans of this dream and, furthermore, justify its happening.
Diction is the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing, these choices heavily affect tone and style and are the building blocks of your writing. The Andrew Jackson's ‘Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'’ (1830) Andrew Jackson uses this to establish this tone and support his purpose. This is evident in his use of such words as benevolent, pecuniary advantages, and the wandering savage. He uses these to enhance the formality and support his purpose to remove the native Americans from their land. Moreover ‘Samuel's Memory’ by Michael Rutledge uses this it in a way the is similar in practice but different in impact. He uses it to display feelings and imagery that Andrew Jackson's ‘Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'’ (1830) could not. This is displayed in his use of “They herd us into this pen like we are cattle”, “I will never forget that lonesome hill”, and “The snow and ice seem to hound us”. This helps to establish a more personal tone and supports the purpose of his work, to never let what happened to his family be forgotten.
To bring this to an end, tone, purpose, diction are unavoidable aspects of writing and can and will differ from piece to piece, ‘Samuel's Memory’ by Michael Rutledge and President Andrew Jackson's ‘Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'’ (1830). Use these building blocks of writing to create effective papers that convey their points to their audience with their clear distinctive styles.
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