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I Am The People, The Mob By Nick Hanauer

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Inequality between social classes has been a problem for humanity since social organization exists. The texts “I Am The People, The Mob” by Carl Sandburg and “The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats” by Nick Hanauer both address an issue about inequality, relevant for each’s author’s context. While “The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats” expresses a point of view for higher class people and about a modern-day problem, “I Am The People, The Mob” describes a problem in a context of a century before and for a less wealthy class. Text C, “I Am The People, The Mob” is a poem written in 1916, for an audience of people that were not part of the higher social classes but were oppressed by them. This text’s purpose is for the audience to relate to the image the author is describing, in order to create awareness about an issue of inequality. Text D, “The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats” is a memo published in a magazine about politics in 2014. Its audience is rich people, entrepreneurs and capitalists. The text creates awareness about the rising inequality and persuades to solve this problem.
Text C and Text D present a different tone to communicate their ideas. Text C has a tone of complaint, in wish the author complains about what they feel and how their social class is being oppressed. In the lines seven and eight of the poem the author says, “Everything but Death comes to me and makes me work and give up what I have.” From the title and the first sentence of
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