What is the author trying to represent by including the

Last updated: 7/4/2022

What is the author trying to represent by including the following details in the book - The Life of Abraham Lincoln from His Birth to His Inauguration as President? His solemn manner, his long silence, were as full of melancholy eloquence as any words he could have uttered. What did he think of? Of the mighty changes which had lifted him from the lowest to the highest estate on earth? Of the weary road which had brought him to this lofty summit? Of his poor mother lying beneath the tangled underbrush in a distant forest? Of that other grave in the quiet Concord cemetery? Whatever the particular character of his thoughts, it is evident that they were retrospective and painful.