Firstly, it’s logical for an author to seek a particular type of audience. Their writing style helps readers understand who the text is aimed to. As I review Eggleston’s A First Book in American History, it is understandable that the work is directed towards a younger audience as he have clarified it, in his preface, “The …show more content…
Among these five documents, each one display and carries a writing style, more are less similar to one another. Each reveal historical events, however, expresses differently because they entrust that some facts are more significant above the others. Since Eggleston’s book is directed to children, it was wise of him included the early life of Columbus, showing realistic struggles involving rejection before reaching his goal. But later, after his big discovers, the author mentions encountering of some sort “misfortunes”, leading to his big fall, yet, still, believing him to be an admirable “hero”. Nevertheless, the other four authors were utterly blunt about what the events were about, where readers liked it or