A Quilt Of A Country Analysis
Valencia Knowles
Pd.4
12-11-14
Symbols of America
America has been through a lot of stressful events. Some events ended up killing many loved ones. Some destroyed part of our country, but it has also brought us all closer together. There are some articles that I have read that explain and show the sorrow and extreme pain of an America as a country. Three articles that I have read shows, in great detail the destruction that has happened. “A Quilt of a Country”, “The Gettysburg address,” and “The Vietnam Wall” all have similar things in common like death, memorial, and unity. They all symbolize each item within each article.
Throughout the three articles that I have read one of the main common interests it that they all symbolize death. In …show more content…
(Lincoln pg. 3)America had no unity because the civil war tore the country apart. In “A Quilt of a Country” this quote is saying that we don’t have unity. “Clinging to ethnicity, in background and custom, has undermined the concept of unity.”(Quindlin Pg. 5, lines 26-27) In “The Gettysburg Address” Lincoln’s speech shows the unity of everyone who fought in the Civil War. “Four score and seven years ago our fore fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”.(Lincoln pg.27 lines 1-3) In “The Vietnam Wall” the unity that everyone shares in America is that everyone goes there for the memories of their passed loved ones. “Flowers are forced into the cracks between sections. Men have cried at this wall. I have seen them.”(Rios, page 35. Rios is saying that people are joining together by being respectful and mourning the dead whose names are up there even if they are not close …show more content…
This is changed into a memorial and the names of lives lost. In the “Gettysburg Address”, Lincoln states that “we are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that nation might live.”(Lincoln pg.27 lines 6-8) In “The Vietnam Wall”, the memorial that it has for America is the Vietnam War memorial in Washington D.C.it lists the names of the dead who fought in the
Pd.4
12-11-14
Symbols of America
America has been through a lot of stressful events. Some events ended up killing many loved ones. Some destroyed part of our country, but it has also brought us all closer together. There are some articles that I have read that explain and show the sorrow and extreme pain of an America as a country. Three articles that I have read shows, in great detail the destruction that has happened. “A Quilt of a Country”, “The Gettysburg address,” and “The Vietnam Wall” all have similar things in common like death, memorial, and unity. They all symbolize each item within each article.
Throughout the three articles that I have read one of the main common interests it that they all symbolize death. In …show more content…
(Lincoln pg. 3)America had no unity because the civil war tore the country apart. In “A Quilt of a Country” this quote is saying that we don’t have unity. “Clinging to ethnicity, in background and custom, has undermined the concept of unity.”(Quindlin Pg. 5, lines 26-27) In “The Gettysburg Address” Lincoln’s speech shows the unity of everyone who fought in the Civil War. “Four score and seven years ago our fore fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”.(Lincoln pg.27 lines 1-3) In “The Vietnam Wall” the unity that everyone shares in America is that everyone goes there for the memories of their passed loved ones. “Flowers are forced into the cracks between sections. Men have cried at this wall. I have seen them.”(Rios, page 35. Rios is saying that people are joining together by being respectful and mourning the dead whose names are up there even if they are not close …show more content…
This is changed into a memorial and the names of lives lost. In the “Gettysburg Address”, Lincoln states that “we are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that nation might live.”(Lincoln pg.27 lines 6-8) In “The Vietnam Wall”, the memorial that it has for America is the Vietnam War memorial in Washington D.C.it lists the names of the dead who fought in the