Analysis

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 * "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. **"
 * Lincoln is reminding us of our ancestors, who came to America to find freedom, and how we engaged in a battle with Britain to fight for our liberty and prove ourselves as a new nation. We were fighting against Britain to fight for equal rights and our own beliefs. Ironically, in the American civil war, the south is fighting for their own voice in the government while the union tried to eliminate theirs.
 * Overall Lincoln symbolizes our “nation as a child, growing and learning.” (southard)
 * "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. **"
 * Lincoln now addressed that our nation is in need of help during this calamity and the need of uniting his audience as members of this nation (southard)
 * "We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." **
 * Lincoln praised the fallen soldiers, and laid a foundation to unite the American people in response to the soldier’s sacrifices. He also praised the American citizens affected by the calamity bestowed by the civil war
 * "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – **"
 * Lincoln is bringing the nation together and telling them to never give up for what you belief, to fight for what the deceased soldiers fought for, and not to let them die in vain.

__**Theme**__: Nation’s history (beginning), the devotion to the Union and the soldiers who fought to preserve it (middle), and the promise of a new America with unity and security. (end)
 * "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. **"
 * Lincoln is trying to persuade the audience to support the nation, they must dedicate themselves on preserving the united nation and achieving a new birth of freedom and to promise that America, in the future, would be more secure and a united country.

Questions:

Why did Lincoln's three minute speech delievered such a poignant effect to the audience?