These days advice doesn’t come cheap. We aren 't always searching for it, but we know that iw would be very helpful in some situations. In the 18th century, advice was given a lot. This advice is nothing like today 's though. It was well thought out lessons that will get you places If you take this advice into hand. On the 12th of January in 1780, Abigail Adams writes a letter to her son John Quincy Adams. The purpose of this letter is to give advice to her child who is traveling abroad with his father. This beautifully crafted advice provides an intellectual sense to all the readers. Adams models another author to compare things to types of people to provide a picture to her son of what kind of man she wants him to be. In her letter she states, …show more content…
She states, "When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities, which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesmen." By this Adams is implying that when something touches your heart, qualities that you have, but don’t normally show, will rise up and make you a different person. She also talks about the things she believes a good man should have. Some of these things are honor, fortitude, and justice. These words dictate the qualities she has been talking about that she hopes her son will catch on to on this excursion. The type of student John Quincy Adams is will determine the type of man he is in the future. Adams is an incredible teacher. No doubt she taught her son many lessons and made him a better man. Reading it today, many of us can take these pieces of advice and become better people ourselves. The qualities she wants her son to attain are definitely reachable with the quality of advice given. This incredibly ritten letter is a piece of art that needs to be