Dbq Monument Analysis

When remembering someone, there is a lot of things that have to be put into prospect. You cannot just go into something thinking that you can wing it, because after high school that doesn't really work. Monuments honor the dead and the achievements that were often done while in their lifetime and that have to do with the sacrifices that they had to make. There are three main factors that go into play when making a monument for the remembered. The location, size and materials put into it. You have to figure out where you want the monument to be, you have to figure out how it has to look and how big it needs to be, and you have to figure out what you have to use to make it and how it will be memorialized. There is three connections to how the monuments should be done, they are in: Source A, Source E, and Source G.

To begin, in order to memorialize with a monument, you have to figure out where it is to be located. In Source A, it says "In this way the monumental core in Washington functions somewhat like a pilgrimage site, where …show more content…
If you have a child that dies young, you are typically going to want to have a gorgeous monument that will draw the attention of everyone near it. Just like if you make a monument dedicated to all of the people that died in the Vietnam war, you are going to want to make it made out of the best stuff and be in a pretty surrounding so that everyone will be drawn to it and realize what really went on with it. I believe that in Source G, it makes a good point by saying, "The site was a beautiful park surrounded by trees, with traffic and noise coming from one side—Constitution Avenue. I had a simple impulse to cut into the earth." This is a good example of how they wanted the monument to be surrounded by something beautiful in order to tell the beautiful life, or event of what the monument stood