Genre
Essay
Setting and Context
Set in the 17th century to improve the state of social conditions.
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Educative, optimistic, inspiring and heartening
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the Public.
Major Conflict
The main conflict is the negligence by the government to follow up on programs already initiated to empower people.
Climax
The climax comes when the author argues that there is a need to revise and update government programs to ensure that citizens are given opportunities to prosper economically.
Foreshadowing
The government assurance foreshadows the economy's improvement to the merchants that their risks are mitigated.
Understatement
The citizens are understated in the text. For instance, the success of any government project relies on the Public's input.
Allusions
The story alludes to the government's significance and the Public working together to achieve the set goals and objectives.
Imagery
The economic imagery paints a clear picture of the relationship between the government and the economy.
Paradox
The main paradox is that people living in town tend to ignore the significance of knowing each other. The narrator suggests that there should be an instituted program to help people living in towns to know each other.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the government's intentions and the Public's perception.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The Public is incarnated.
