The differences between Andrew Jackson’s message to congress and Michael Rutledge’s “Samuel’s Memory” are as big as they can get. Andrew Jackson writes his message about how great the removal of the Indians will be, and makes them out to be bad people to further appeal it to the congress. From Samuel’s point of view in “Samuel’s Memory” it describes the pain the removal of Indians caused among his people, and states that the whites are bad people. The similarity they have is that both make their argument against each other very clear, and display their disliking of each other.
In Andrew Jackson’s letter, his main focus is to convince the congress that the Indian removal is good for both the people of the new American colonies,…show more content… The Trail of Tears was the long path the Indians had taken while being forcefully moved to their new land. Having to walk through the harsh conditions, many Indians became ill or just simply unable to continue down the trail and died, earning it the name The Trail of Tears. Samuel describes the sorrow of losing friends and family, including his own father. He opens the story with a very quick display of how peaceful it was, but it is immediately shut down when he mention the white men riding into his village on horses. They enter his family home, and begin breaking their pottery and other belongings, not allowing them to gather any of it, before forcing them from the home. Then we are taken along on his journey on the Trail, where families are dying off and clan members are mourning one another with endless tears. We are given a vivid image of the horrible experience that such a young boy had to endure, and it’s incredibly saddening. In the conclusion of the story, Samuel expresses his hate for all white people, and once more flashes back to the horrible trip through other white towns, and the people who paid his suffering family no
