Life in America

Life in America was written by Thomas starting time Nichols in the 1830s, it was a text that captured the life and the situation of the country near years after the 1812 war. It is whatsoeverwhat hard to establish the precise literary genre of the text, since the literary styles were somewhat different in those days.The specific term here(predicate) is somewhat, since all the literary genres that exist today also existed then(prenominal), except some writing styles that existed in mid 19th century do not really exist anymore and the text by Nichols might bonnie belong to a writing style that is gone.Essay writing in its authorized definition could be described as a writing of a report (e.g. about a country or a situation) in a rather poetic manner. This kind of writing was very fashionable in the 19th century since much of the periods writings was inspired by desperate works, spit outs, revolutions and the romantic spirit. Revolutionary poems and this kind of epic journa lism were very popular.The style to which the Nichols text bears such resemblance had a close relation to what used to called Travel Writing in some(prenominal) European languages. It is similar to the descriptive or epic journalism exclusively it as an account of a journey by a author or a journalist, to some extent an equivalent to a orthogonal correspondent nowadays. Before the telegraph that was the only way to be unploughed in tune with the news abroad, the correspondent would send weekly or monthly reports through the mail and the texts would be published in journals or weeklies.Thomas Low Nichols is the perfect example of a high middle partitioning amateur writer. The language he uses and the emphasis that is given to education in the text show a high level of education. He truly writes as a professional and was a writer by committedness (a quite renowned one) but that most probably wasnt his master(prenominal) source of income.High middle class people in post new America usually had family states or businesses to run and wrote, practiced law or got involved into politics for patriotic, personal or sentimental reasons rather then looking for a career as the case is today.Nichols is obviously from an estate and business owning family. He shows us that through the story of his mystify My father had been drafted as a militia-man during the war of 1812, and might have fought in the famous battle of Plattsburg had not his business engagements made it necessary for him to hire a substitute, by which he lost not only much glory, but the bounty-money and a hundred and sixty acres of land, which was afterwards given to any surviving soldier whose name could be found upon the rolls of the army.His fathers job was obviously important enough to allow him to hire a substitute as hygienic as the fact that he became colonel shows a background of education and wealth.The most probable purpose of Nichols becoming a journalist and an author is a mixture of love for writing, patriotic feelings, despotic hopes for a new country and a new world.He belongs to the post rotatory generation that might have lived through some periods of the revolution, but were withal young to take any active part in it. His generation was more optimistic and easy going then their fathers as well as they were more cultured and interested in arts and poem then their revolutionary fathers were. They also enjoyed a better and more definite economic situation then their struggling fathers. In other dustup Nichols generation was softer and more advancing.They were also very proud of what their fathers realised and Nichols actually gives us a mixed account of what has been accomplished by the war of independence as well as by the heathen Revolution that was a direct result of the post revolutionary struggle for Americas place as a young and progressive country.His writing is basically directed at young Americans and Europeans in order to show them the pr ogress that was accomplished in the 30-odd years of the countrys independence. He writes first hand from personal experience and the literary sources useable at the time.