Applying Mother Abigail Adams Letter To John Quincy Adams

Mother Abigail Adams writes to her son John Quincy Adams on 12 January 1780 to advise him about the aftermath of the voyage. In her letter, Adams’s mother, Abigail Adams explains how throughout the time it will benefit her son going on the voyage with his father and brother. Adams develops this by contributing to a motherly tinder tone, by highlighting the advantages he will have, and by appealing the relationship between Abigail and her son John.

Abigail Adams in the beginning of her letter creates a motherly tinder tone. For instance, she kindly reveals in line 5 that, “... most for your own benefit, I should not have urged you” she wishes she wouldn’t have forced him to go on the voyage but she knows it will benefit him in the long run.

In line 26, Adams describes that “Nature has not been deficient” to stress that nature does have enough of the needed resources he needs, in order to survive. And in a further line, she explains “form the character of the hero and the statesman” to illustrate that being a bigger person will help shape who will be throughout time. Throughout life, he will have to use that a lot which will benefit him who he will be. This was most evident, she asserts, on his voyage, he will see how the world really is through his own eyes and he will not only have to stand up for his beliefs but “do honor to your country” for others as well to represent where he is from. The use of explanation in this section that she knows that the voyage will have many advantages for him although at that moment he doesn’t understand but he will us what he learns throughout

In line 15, she writes “daily improving” hints at every day with benefit him and build him every day by him learning new things every day while he’s on the voyage. In the final section, Adams wrote in line 57 “The strict and inviolable regard you have ever paid to truth, gives me pleasing hopes that you will not swerve from her dictates, but add justice, fortitude, and every manly virtue which can adorn a good citizen, do honor your country, and render your parents supremely happy, particularly your ever affectionate mother”. She advises to her son to let him know that everything he will learning on the voyage with help him in the future in any situation he is in he would know how to react. In addition, she explains “give me pleasing hopes” to inspire her son to make her proud of him of who he will be in the future. By emphasizing “your ever affectionate mother” she explains how she truly cares for her son and how close she was to him plus to highlight that she loves her son. Therefore, she told him to go on the voyage because she cares for him since she knows that it will benefit. If she didn’t care she wouldn’t have told him to go on the voyage and he would stay home with his mother. She was able to emotionally appeal to her son to encourage him on the voyage to make her family proud and also to do it for his own