How does Black Hawk’s rhetoric in this excerpt advance his viewpoint that people are interconnected with the natural world? When
I saw that I could not beat you by Indian fighting, I determined to rush on you, and fight you face to face. I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter.
He used figures of speech that directly compared all the happenings of the event with the elements of nature.
For example, he compared the speed of the fired bullets with the flight of birds in air, he also compared its sound to that of the wind that blows trees in winter. These comparisons are done using simile.
This rhetoric emphasizes the relationship man has with nature that he cannot disconnect from.
