Question

How does Franklin use irony in this excerpt from Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America? by showing the Native Americans' inability to accept the settlers beliefs by showing the settlers their inability to see the similarities with Native Americans by showing the difference in the beliefs and their inability to understand one another by showing that neither the settlers nor Native Americans accepted the others' beliefs

Answer 1

by showing that neither the settlers nor Native Americans accepted the others' beliefs

Step-by-step explanation:

Benjamin Franklin showed through this article that the groups, that is, the Native Americans and the Settlers found it difficult to accept each other's believes. He used irony, that is saying the opposite of what a person means to illustrate this. When the Natives showed civility to the Settlers, they mistook it for acceptance of their beliefs. But when the Natives deliberated on the matter and offered their response, it most times was a rejection of all the things which the settlers proposed to them.

In like manner, the settlers also considered the Indian's beliefs such as his theory of the existence of life as mere fables. The Indians also believed that the English man's meeting taught him no good as his actions belied that.