1. American Identity
In the first part of his essay, de Crevecoeur describes American identity: "Here he beholds fair cities, substantial villages, extensive fields, and immense country filled with decent houses, good roads, orchards, meadows, and bridges, where an hundred years ago all was wild, woody and uncultivated! ... Baldwin's view of American identity is different to that of de Crevecoeur. ... When we consider and try to define American identity, we come to a subject that is, like Baldwin states "extremely controversial-, but what both of these essay's demonstrate is that the American identit...
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