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Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Paloma Acosta, the speaker’s loving tone is evident in her use of imagery, voice and connotation as she explains how her mother would use old pieces of clothing to make quilts for her family to keep them warm. The speaker’s loving tone is shown by the fact that the mother took time out of her day to make quilts for her family out of old clothing in order to keep them warm. Acosta’s mother was such a caring woman for her family for such reasons like making quilts for…

In each of the texts "Once Upon a Time", "A Quilt of a Country", and "Making the Future Better Together" they use symbols to represent something that they want to emphasize to the audience. They even use rhetorical strategies to get their point to the readers. Some rhetorical strategies include repeating the phrase/word many times. In the text" Once Upon a Time "the cat symbolizes danger. In "A Quilt of a Country " the quilt symbolizes one group as a whole even with diversity in America.…

In the piece “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” Teresa Palma Acosta describes the hand knit blankets made by her mother and its connection to her family and their relationship. From the first line of piece, she confronts a common assumption made by others by writing, “they were just meant as covers in winters as weapons against pounding January winds.” Someone could interpret the literal meaning of quilts and use it solely for warmth and comfort; but the author held a much…

citizen that is especially displayed in times of great trial. Even though there are people who live in America but don’t act very patriotic, times of disaster on a national scale are able to bring out a sense of unity and pride in each citizen. In A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One?, Anna Quindlen says the citizens of America “when [faced with] enormous tragedy” are almost forced to “[reflect on their] enormous blessings,” (2). This uses logos…

I concur with him, but I believe this unison will obviously have some issues. Even so, I believe the race can prevail and survive. As long as we accept one another’s uniqueness and strive for a common goal, we’ll stay united. To start off, in “A Quilt of a Country”, Anna Quindlen claims, “... vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live…” She helps illustrate that this “one…

though Dee is sometimes sentimental, she is blinded by her ignorance toward the history of the quilts, and will never agree with Maggie that the past memories in a piece are more important that being sure to preserve it no matter what. When Dee and Mama were arguing about the rightful owner of the quilts, Maggie offered off the quilts to her older sister saying, “I can ‘member Grandma Dee without the quilts” (321.74). She believes that the world has always and will always tell her no to the…

called The Keeping Quilt and Teresa Paloma Acosta made My Mother Pieced Quilts.In the Keeping Quilt the main characters are Great-Gramma Anna, Great Grandpa Sasha, and Anna.In the poem My Mother Pieced Quilts is the mother. The two stories both say about how much they love and respect for the quilts in which the quilts means something very special about their heritage. The symbols in the two stories are the quilts and their meaning is about their family heritage as in “The Keeping Quilt” the…

connection to their grandmother’s quilts suggests something. It suggests that females are instrumental in preserving and handing down a family’s history. Mama knows the story behind each piece of clothing, these clothing are used to make the quilts and she wants the history preserved and handed down. Mama holds a lot of history. History by having two girls and history of the family members before her, especially Grandma Dee. Mama had a great connection to the quilts because she was one of the…

In her poem, The Century Quilt, Waniek refers to literary devices such as imagery. Structure, and symbolism. Through her use of these literary devices a reader is able to learn about the century quilt and the value that it holds in the speaker’s life. The most notable literary device used by Waniek is the structure in which she uses to create her poem. The poem seems to be structured chronologically from past to present, and this can be seen as the speaker speaks out about her days as a…

United Diversity Anna Quindlen argues in her essay “A Quilt Of A Country” that what brings people together in the united states are the specific values and ideas which this nation supports as one. During the aftermath of the collapse of the world trade center, the author explains in the essay that people came together to support one another after a tragedy which threatens their safety “Today the citizen of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack…