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What is the MOST LIKELY reason Tocqueville sometimes shifts to the first person point of view?

O A It indicates the points at which Tocqueville is introducing new subjects.
B. It makes Tocqueville's tone sound more personal and his ideas more sympathetic.
O c It shows that Tocqueville himself has observed everything that he is writing about.
It provides insights into what Americans of Tocqueville's time believed.

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Read Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the MOST LIKELY reason Tocqueville sometimes shifts to the first person point of view?

O A It indicates the points at which Tocqueville is introducing new subjects.

B. It makes Tocqueville's tone sound more personal and his ideas more sympathetic.

O c It shows that Tocqueville himself has observed everything that he is writing about.

It provides insights into what Americans of Tocqueville's time believed.

Answer: c. It shows that Tocqueville himself has observed everything that he is writing about.

Step-by-step explanation:

In La Démocratie en Amérique, also known as On Democracy in America, Tocqueville uses the first-person point of view because his work is based on his recollections from traveling through the United States. He had been sent in 1831 by the French government to examine the American prison administration with Gustave de Beaumont. This assignment was his excuse to investigate the religious, political, and economic characteristics of American society.

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