The American Political Tradition Literary Elements

Non-fiction book

The action takes place in America during present time.

The action is told from the perspective of a third-person objective point of view.

The tone and mood in the story is a neutral one.

The protagonists are presented as being the American people belonging to the middle class and the antagonists are the American aristocracy.

The major conflict is presented as being between reality and dreams.

The story reaches its climax when America gains its independence.

At the beginning of the story, the narrator mentioned how most former American presidents share common characteristics. This foreshadows the later patterns the narrator will discover in the American society.

The narrator claims that one of the biggest understatement found in American history is the idea that everyone can succeed financially, no matter how poor they are when they are born. According to the narrator, this is a lie and the purpose of this belief was to give the people from the lower classes hope so that they continue working and to grow the economy.

The main allusion presented in the story is the idea that if a person wants to become president, the most important thing a person could do to become elected is to be a capitalist.

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One of the most paradoxical ideas is presented as being the idea that while the American leaders claim that they have nothing in common in communism, the American economy and political environment adopted many communist and socialist ideals.

The narrator draws a parallel between 10 different former presidents of the United States to show that there is a pattern when it comes to what a person is expected to do in order to be elected as president.

The term "land" is used here as a general term to make reference to the idea of power.

We have a personification in the line "the sun tormented everyone on the streets".