Assertion analysis #8 Cotton Mather
The row of Indian corn is colored red and blue and the rest that are planted are yellow, red and blue are infected, while the yellow corn is fine. The yellow corn is the most usual color with no infected corn. Cotton Mather uses diction to emphasize the problem he and the rest of the puritans had, which was the Christians being infected with witchcraft. His quote was a Allegory, the main reason for this was to set up this solution or cure for the infection of witchcraft spreading into Christianity.
Cotton Mather uses corn and Abnormal colors to help us look at the bigger picture, being
The regular yellow corn is your average Christian, while the red and blue corn are the witch craft that is spreading. Even though the red and blue corn had been planted in certain areas he had seen that area’s that weren’t even around the red and blue corn had be Corrupted.”but to the leeward side, no less than seven or eight rows, had ye same color Communicated Unto them; and some small impressions were made on those that were yet further off.” Cotton matter connects this with the Christians and witchcraft because witchcraft was spreading everywhere even when it was no where near the people that had been corrupted. Innocent people like the homeless, and elders had been accused of witchcraft but they had absolutely no idea about what was actually happening. Random Innocent people had been corrupted without evidence to back up people’s Accusations, whitch lead to many innocent people’s death.
The red and blue corn were the bad colors compared to the normal yellow corn, but the yellow corn was starting to get corrupted and there was nothing that anybody could do about it because it doesn’t make sense as to how it even started in the first place so people weren’t able to go back to where it all started. It was so strange to everyone and that fact that there was no solution causes even more havoc because people where bing accused left and right and more lies where being created and this made everything and huge ball of yarn waiting to be unraveled to find the truth.
The mixing of things that aren’t supposed to be together creates this problems and makes people act out of sheer survival of themselves and their family. The yellow, red, and blue corn is the perfect example of things mixing together and they shouldn’t be mixing because it causes this problem that is hard to solve because there is barley even a solution to solving it.
Cotton Mather uses corn and Abnormal colors to help us look at the bigger picture, being
The regular yellow corn is your average Christian, while the red and blue corn are the witch craft that is spreading. Even though the red and blue corn had been planted in certain areas he had seen that area’s that weren’t even around the red and blue corn had be Corrupted.”but to the leeward side, no less than seven or eight rows, had ye same color Communicated Unto them; and some small impressions were made on those that were yet further off.” Cotton matter connects this with the Christians and witchcraft because witchcraft was spreading everywhere even when it was no where near the people that had been corrupted. Innocent people like the homeless, and elders had been accused of witchcraft but they had absolutely no idea about what was actually happening. Random Innocent people had been corrupted without evidence to back up people’s Accusations, whitch lead to many innocent people’s death.
The red and blue corn were the bad colors compared to the normal yellow corn, but the yellow corn was starting to get corrupted and there was nothing that anybody could do about it because it doesn’t make sense as to how it even started in the first place so people weren’t able to go back to where it all started. It was so strange to everyone and that fact that there was no solution causes even more havoc because people where bing accused left and right and more lies where being created and this made everything and huge ball of yarn waiting to be unraveled to find the truth.
The mixing of things that aren’t supposed to be together creates this problems and makes people act out of sheer survival of themselves and their family. The yellow, red, and blue corn is the perfect example of things mixing together and they shouldn’t be mixing because it causes this problem that is hard to solve because there is barley even a solution to solving it.
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