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Benjamin Franklin criticizes the colonists viewpoint of the native Americans because he believes that they should be treated with respect because they are not doing anything wrong. Mary Rowland is using emotional appeal to show her reasoning for the way she believes Native Americans should be treated, in “The First Remote” she says, “Little do many think what is the savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy,” there are no evidence that they do anything to harm people or disturb their way of living. Benjamin Franklin is trying to explain that the Native Americans are approximately just like the colonials. In Benjamin Franklin remarks concerning the savages of North America he states that “The Indian Women till the Ground, dress the Food, nurse and bring up the Children, & preserve & hand down to Posterity the Memory of public Transactions.” He is trying to show the resemblance between the Natives way of living and the colonist. They are nothing close to being savages, they are normal human beings. He reminds them that “The Indian Men when young are Hunters and Warriors” (Franklin 1).
Benjamin Franklin uses satirical devices in his writing about how he has a different way of viewing the Natives compared to the colonist. He is being very sarcastic in his writing, he says “savages we call them because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility.” He is trying to explain in this quote that they thought that their way was the right way and that they thought they did everything perfect. In reality no one is perfect and just because someone does something different does not mean it is right to call them savages. He is contradicting when Rowlandson said "Little do many think what is the savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy" (Rowlandson 1)
In the “First Remove” Rowlandson makes the Native Americans sound horribly in words that would make the colonists scared of the Natives and persuaded the colonist to believe the ridiculous remarks she made about them. Rowland tells the colonist that there is “savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy” (Rowlandson 1). She does this to make the Native Americans seem to be horribly people and to convey them as animals. Benjamin Franklin’s “Remarks concerning the savages of North America” uses emotional appeal to show how his views go against her views. Franklin’s descriptions of the Native Americans are completely different then Rowlandson's views on them. He tries to make Americans understand that the Native Americans are similar to them and are hard working human beings. Benjamin explains to them that “The Indian Men when young are Hunters and Warriors” and that they are far removed from their early colonial portrayal as “creatures” and “savages” (Franklin 1).