Anna Quindlen's A Quilt Of A Country

In the passage “A Quilt of a Country”, the author Anna Quindlen claims that “America is an improbable idea.”. Quindlen mentions that the United States of America is a nation founded on a conundrum, no matter what the native Americans may intend to argue, immigrants are not much dissimilar from our own families at home. Also patriotism along with taking pride in this doubtful idea that requires putting all of us together in a country that is just as different as a every other countries, and calling it by one name. By the way Anna Quindlen describes the United States of America, she believes that it is a nation built on the bases of a conundrum. A mongrel country, with many unpleasant events, such as economic unrest and enlarging crime rates, along with its citizens. Simply a nation equivalent to a paradox, and that just like any other improbable idea, will shock you when it actually works. A nation that is founded on a conundrum can be quite puzzling. In order to explain what the author means by this, she brings up a quote written by Mario Cuomo an ex-governor of New York. The quote describes America as a “community added to individualism.” The reason for this quote being included is to show two of our defining ideals which are discordant. It shows that in this “community” we were all disparate individuals in the …show more content…
She supports this by describing photographs. These photographs are of the civilians who passed during the World Trade Center attacks. This is a place where any differences among us are left unmolested. Here we practice coalescing and bemoaning the loss of these individuals. These people whose background does not matter, what matters is that they all pertain to this mongrel country, where we all act as