Question

Next, you’ll compare the speeches by Lewis and Lincoln. Begin by recording each author’s purpose, audience, and overall message in the table below. Be sure to include textual evidence to support your thinking, especially in the Message column. Good readers reread the text to find accurate textual evidence.

Answer 1

Lincoln

Purpose: to rally Northerners to continue fighting for the Union

Audience: Northern supports of the Union

Message: The only way to honor the Union soldiers who have died is to continue fighting to save the Union.

Lewis

Purpose: to inspire Americans to fulfill King’s legacy

Audience: all Americans

Message: Martin Luther King Jr. inspired Lewis and many others like him. Lewis’s message includes allusions to beloved texts—King’s own speeches and the Declaration of Independence, which help support Lewis’s purpose.

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