Adam’s suggest to her son that he will be successful by making connections between her son and others, so he can learn from them. Adam’s questions, “would Cicero have share so distinguished an orater if he had not been roused, kindled and enflamed by tranny of Catalina, Verres and Mark Antony?” She (Adam’s) is trying to make a point to her son. By asking this question she is explaining to her son that the challenges Cicero faced made him the great man people know today. If Cicero wouldn’t have faced those challenges, then would he have been able to have the success he did. Adam’s wants her son to analyze the challenges he faces and learn from them, so he can become a great man. Adam’s explains, “to have a parents who has taken so large and active a share is this contest, and discharge the trust response in him with so much satisfaction as to be honored with the important embassy which at present calls him abroad,” she is comparing her son to his father to show her son not to be imitimiated by his father’s success, that is gets in front of his