Upon a Time "the cat symbolizes danger. In "A Quilt of a Country " the quilt symbolizes one group as a whole even with diversity in America. In "Making the Future Better Together
"Washington's speech symbolizes the future. Theme is a lesson learned in the text. In almost all the texts there is a theme presented to the readers. The symbols in the three texts lead to a theme in the text.
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The cat relates to the theme because the cat played as an intruder and the family didn't want the anyone harming the boy but the boy still got hurt from the sharp blades even though the cat didn't do anything to the boy.
In the text "A Quilt of a Country" the quilt symbolizes one group as a whole even with diversity. The author wrote how America has many problems that sometimes the nation is together but other times they are individual. In America there are diverse people but despite that because when tragic events happen the nation help each other as one whole nation. In the text "
A Quilt of a Country "it says " a mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts...built of bits and pieces that seem discordant ,like crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms."(3,Quindlen)This shows that every piece of the quilt represents a internal person that makes up America .Diverse people can still be together even though they aren't alike and not every country has that ability. A rhetorical strategy that was used is the question "What