Abigail Adams to John Adams (Classical Parallels)

This letter, from abigail adams to his husband, john adams is just talking about how she misses him. That she is very worried about him and that she cannot think of anything else but about him and whatever horrority that could happen to him on his work as delegate. She also tells him about their friend Mrs. Warren and how she gives to him the best wishes as friend and patriot. Another thing she says is that one of the only things that distracts her is reading "Rolling´s acient history" and that she has fun reading it with their son, Johnny. At last she taks to him about how weather has been and how much she wants to hear from him; that she and their son miss him and give him blessings.

Rethorical Divices:

1. Emotion: "the great anxiety I feel for my country, for you and for our family renders the day tedious, and the night unpleasent."(Abigail Adams 676)
This quote is stating what the whole letter is about. Of how she feels being with her family but without his husband, how she misses him and how she is worried about him and  worried about the country and how he is going to help it.

2. Restatement: "I am determined to go thro  with it if possible in these my days of solitude."(Abigail Adams 676)
This quote is important to the entire letter because she repeats her self a couple of times of how she misses him and that she feels lonely so she needs to do what she can to get her mind off that for a while.

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