"It had not entered into our hearts to believe that these friends and allies from the United States, even with all their foreign affinities, would ever go so far as to absolutely overthrow our form of government, seize our nation by the throat, and pass it over to an alien power."
I really like this sentence because I believe Queen Liliuokalani very effectively sums up how any nation feels after they have been betrayed by an ally, or how a person might feel after being betrayed by someone they thought was a close friend. It would be unexpected and your trust for that person would be forever broken. Using words such as “hearts” instead of something like “thoughts” makes it seem like a more personal attack from the United States. The phrase “seize our nation by the throat” depicts what the United States did as vicious. And the end of the sentence, “pass it over to an alien power”, makes it feels as though what the United States did was very distant, without any concern for the well-being of the Hawaiian people. These examples all serve to really make the reader believe that what the United States was incredibly corrupt and convince the reader to take up the side of Hawaii.
Excellent analysis!
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