“A Quilt of A Country” and “The Immigrant Contribution” are stories of America, stories of us, the real, underlying idea of our nation. Although, the stories aren’t told of the same perspective, one tells of an improbable idea of a world condensed into a nation, and the other tells of the accomplishments of the outsiders, them being immigrants from our surrounding countries and even overseas countries, and how they shaped our nation as a whole. There is a point where they overlap where one writer realizes the points of the others.
To begin with, “A Quilt of A Country” makes sure the reader knows that the United States is a place of history, and with history comes tragic periods of our pasts that no one likes to look back on, Many of the …show more content…
In the last paragraph of “A Quilt of A Country” is the turning point within the article in which Quindlin changes her overall diction of her passage, WHen the photographs of the faces of all who died in the World Trade Center destruction are assembled in one pace, it will be possible to trace in the skin color, the shape of the eyes and the noses, the texture of the hair, a map of the world. These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit. Like many improbable ideas, when it actually works, it’s a wonder; Quindlin, 16. Kennedy, in his excerpt, created the same impression in his writing about the melting pot that is the United States, Immigration provided the human resources. More than that, it infused the nation with a commitment to far horizons and new frontiers and thereby kept the pioneer spirit of American life, the spirit of equality, and of hope, always alive strong; Kennedy, 28. The similarities are pretty close to one-to-one in the point both individuals made, this being the American spirit and how it unites us at desperate times. The passages are different in many ways but, ended converging on a similar
To begin with, “A Quilt of A Country” makes sure the reader knows that the United States is a place of history, and with history comes tragic periods of our pasts that no one likes to look back on, Many of the …show more content…
In the last paragraph of “A Quilt of A Country” is the turning point within the article in which Quindlin changes her overall diction of her passage, WHen the photographs of the faces of all who died in the World Trade Center destruction are assembled in one pace, it will be possible to trace in the skin color, the shape of the eyes and the noses, the texture of the hair, a map of the world. These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit. Like many improbable ideas, when it actually works, it’s a wonder; Quindlin, 16. Kennedy, in his excerpt, created the same impression in his writing about the melting pot that is the United States, Immigration provided the human resources. More than that, it infused the nation with a commitment to far horizons and new frontiers and thereby kept the pioneer spirit of American life, the spirit of equality, and of hope, always alive strong; Kennedy, 28. The similarities are pretty close to one-to-one in the point both individuals made, this being the American spirit and how it unites us at desperate times. The passages are different in many ways but, ended converging on a similar