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A Quilt of a Country - Coggle Diagram
A Quilt of a Country
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Incendiary: (adjective) Causing trouble, damage.
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The premise behind this article is that despite the diversity that can create a lot of problems within cities across America, diversity serves as a tribute to what makes America special.
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Quindlen uses a metaphor, or a literary comparison, of the U.S. to a quilt to describe its unique creation by using its various parts.
America has suffered from bigotry in many forms such as Racism, sexism, homophobia.
Anna Quindlen's purpose is to help us to realize that the US as a whole, even though we are many different cultures and religions, we manage to find common ground as a whole.
Quilt of A country talks a bout different conflicting cultures, yet we easily deal with one another on a daily basis.
In a quilt of a country, Quindlen says that we have many disparate parts working as a whole. This is indeed true.
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'A Quilt of a Country' was written after the terror attacks on America that occurred on September 11, 2001.
Quindlen uses the metaphor, or a literary comparison, of the United States as a quilt comprised of diversified pieces.
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The word splintered has a negative connotation. The phrase "splintered whole" is an oxymoron. A thing that is splintered cannot be whole, and yet in this case it is.
Historically the Arab and Jewish people have hated each other. Their beliefs leading them to many violent conflicts
In essence, the author is stating that the degree of diversity that exists in the United States is much greater than any other country in the world.
"A Quilt of a Country" is an essay written by American writer Anna Quindlen for Newsweek in the immediately aftermath of the September 11th attacks. The piece is unconventional in style and form; it is part autobiographical, part persuasive, and part expository history.
America is an improbable idea, a mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion.
In America all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone.