Throughout her essay, author Sarah Vowell explains her views on patriotism. Vowell, tough is cloudy, still defines herself as a patriot, but as she ridicules those around her on the ways they choose to express patriotism she contradicts herself and proves to be a hypocrite. Vowell describes the time when she viewed the blockbuster “The Patriot” and the man she met a week after while she was out with some friends for dessert. Andy, the man Vowell met, described himself as “feeling jingoistic.”In her essay, Vowell’s tone changes at this point to sound more surprised and almost judgemental due to Andy describing that the way he was feeling can be connotated with extreme patriotism characterized by aggression, but why does Vowell sound so surprised
