The purpose of Letters from an American Farmer During the period of time the United States were first trying to defy themselves as a nation through texts, at the end of the 18th century, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote his Letters from an American Farmer. Crevecoeur originally was a Frenchman, but he went to Canada as a young man, and soon after he settled on the American frontier. His Letters from an American Farmer, …showed first 75 words of 604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 604 total…of Utopia. His book itself is also a product of its time: it answers to the cries of idealists for a new world, a new beginning, in an ‘empty’ part of the world, as well as to those of people trying to escape their misery by emigrating, and by building up a new life under completely unknown, dangerous, and challenging circumstances. Both groups needed confirmation that their ideas and actions had not been in vain.