The “Letter To America” includes Margaret Atwood’s opinions of America and how it has gone downhill since she was a child. She claims we have “gutted the Constitution” and “torched the economy” in her attempts at providing an explanation of why America is on the down-slope. However, Margaret Atwood’s letter fails to accurately depict America as a country and illustrate both the recent and prior affairs in which we have participated in. In her letter, Atwood never uses definite facts or details that can not be argued to be in favor of the opposition. Instead, she uses opinionated elements to convey the downward arc that, in her mind, is America. First, I would like to start off with Democracy, considering that may be the key to perceiving
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The people agreed with the wars because we had seen what happened in WWII and they did not want something like that to happen again. The war was absolutely brutal and a few invasions to feeble countries would be much more preferable than another confrontation to that scale. Atwood also tries to bring to light our occasional renouncing of the Constitution, but how can she expect a document written over 200 years ago to still be strictly used. The Constitution has had to have changes made with the recent technology produced. The early Americans had no way of knowing what life would be like 300 years later and even they knew we would have to mend the Constitution in the succeeding years. The writers even made the Constitution very vague for this reason and so it could be interpreted at a later date to fit the demands of …show more content…
It shows a great deal of bias and some ignorance to America 's history as a country. She is a very exceptional and capable writer, but she failed to portray America the way it is and instead presented it as something of a run-down mansion. Little does she know, this run-down mansion is and will continue to be the most powerful mansion, or nation, in the world. So this brings me to my third and final point: not only is our country not on a descent, but it is actually progressively getting better. Therefore, Margaret Atwood’s letter is very pessimistic towards a prospering America. It is very inaccurate and for the “Letter to America” to be effectively presented, Atwood must reevaluate both the contemporary and former
The people agreed with the wars because we had seen what happened in WWII and they did not want something like that to happen again. The war was absolutely brutal and a few invasions to feeble countries would be much more preferable than another confrontation to that scale. Atwood also tries to bring to light our occasional renouncing of the Constitution, but how can she expect a document written over 200 years ago to still be strictly used. The Constitution has had to have changes made with the recent technology produced. The early Americans had no way of knowing what life would be like 300 years later and even they knew we would have to mend the Constitution in the succeeding years. The writers even made the Constitution very vague for this reason and so it could be interpreted at a later date to fit the demands of …show more content…
It shows a great deal of bias and some ignorance to America 's history as a country. She is a very exceptional and capable writer, but she failed to portray America the way it is and instead presented it as something of a run-down mansion. Little does she know, this run-down mansion is and will continue to be the most powerful mansion, or nation, in the world. So this brings me to my third and final point: not only is our country not on a descent, but it is actually progressively getting better. Therefore, Margaret Atwood’s letter is very pessimistic towards a prospering America. It is very inaccurate and for the “Letter to America” to be effectively presented, Atwood must reevaluate both the contemporary and former