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Paige Nelson Ms. Washington Ib/Ap Lang 9 December 2020 On-Demand Essay In Lord Chesterfield’s letter to his son, he reveals his own morals by recollecting his own mistakes in his past. Throughout his letter, he aims to build an understanding between him and his son while living his independent life; meanwhile, wanting to advise and persuade him to utilize good judgment. Lord Chesterfield reveals his intentions using diction and syntax to give sufficient insight to his son. From the beginning, Lord Chesterfield utilizes sophisticated diction to imply wisdom to reveal that he does not want his son to follow in his own footsteps. He describes his advice as “moroseness,” “imperiousness,” or as a “garrulity of old age” and adds that he was once that age as well. Lord Chesterfield asserts that he did not want to see his advice as censoring but as counsel for his future. Lord Chesterfield’s diction contradicts the intentions he wrote. He hints that his son should take his advice into deep consideration because he is “absolutely dependent” on him and affirming that he “neither have, nor can have a shilling in the world but from [him]”. Lord Irwin is trying to penetrate his son’s mind so that he does not repeat what he has done himself in his youth. Chesterfield expects his son to turn to his advice because he is on his own and knows how to make self-tuning decisions. Lord Chesterfield starts off his letter with long sentence structures, then switching between colon and semi-colon use, and then merely semi-colons. The purpose of the elongated sentence structure is to create a foundation for what he will reveal to his son. Lord Chesterfield

recognizes in these long sentences that there are various reasons why a son would not take their parents’ advice into account. He even doubts himself in saying “whether it is even any purpose” of writing the letter. As he continues his letter, he switches to excessive colons and semi-colons to contrast what he said in the first part of the sentence versus the second. He says he tries not to “dictate as a parent; [but] only mean to advise as a friend,”, attempting to convey that if he does not listen to advice because he is his father, instead to see it as his friend. He hopes that in that light, he “will at least weigh and consider it well: in which case, some of it will, I hope, have its effect”. Furthermore, towards the end of the letter, he relies on semi-colons to compare his ideas. He begins his last paragraph with a long sentence connected by two semi-colons. Lord Chesterfield adds that “[he] does mention them now as duties; but [he] point[s] them out to [his son] as conducive”. Here, Chesterfield implies that his son's duties can be beneficial to his family: supposing to motivate his son to succeed for his own pleasure and boost the family name. He uses semi-colons here to express his opinions and delights of his son’s education. Overall, Lord Chesterfield uses syntax and diction to imply his requests hoping to intervene and hope for his son to make good judgments while he is away. Lord Chesterfield gives this insight by reflecting on his own past experiences, trying to get him on not to replicate the choices that he made himself in the past....