Anna Quindlen The Quilt Of A Country Summary

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Karlee Leach

Anna Quindlen’s claim in the her essay “The Quilt of a Country” is that America is an improbable idea. This is further explained in the first paragraph where she wrote, “America… is held together by the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone.” What she is trying to explain is, in the constitution, it states that all men are created equal, but we all know that is not true. Many people think they are better than someone else, possibly because of race, religion, or just a big ego. Another time when this further explained is when Quindlen writes “Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody’s image… Out of many, one.” What she
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