Only respond if you’re serious please .. I need help How does Lincoln show the contrasts between America four years earlier and America at the
time of his second address?

What might his motives have been for pointing out these differences?

How does emphasizing the changes that have taken place in America strengthen his argument?

(1)The most obvious way it talks about how the country had changed is that it acknowledged how greatly both sides had suffered — North and South together.
(He pointed out quite rightly that each side had prayed “to the same God” to achieve a quick, decisive victory over the other side. “He could not answer both side’s prayers, and arguably, he answered neither.”

Googly eyed because it sounds like a silly thing to call someone