The method of creating a monument is vital and must be thought through. It is how the people of the world will remember a specific event in history, and determine how future generations view the past. When a group of people create a monument, it is essential to pay close attention to the location and the craftsmanship of the monument, and if not carefully attended to, the monument may have little to no future significance. Imagine a poster that reads, “remember to get your daily dose of sunlight!” placed inside a football team’s locker room. This poster would have little effect, as football players practice outside for hours at a time. This can be applied to monuments as well: location is vital in order to have a proper response. When an agency…show more content… The time, energy, and resources used to create the memorial would go to waste, and more importantly, people would not commemorate the past event. On the other hand, if location is carefully considered, a monument can serve to have immense meaning and impact, like the “monument of Christopher Columbus in Riverside Park, Easton, Pennsylvania” (Source B). If you walk through the location of where the American Revolution took place, and view this monument, you will feel immediately grateful for Columbus’s actions. Because of its location, the monument’s meaning amplifies, and more people will be able to commemorate the past events. Additionally, craftsmanship of a monument is vital when creating a monument. Because a monument is made to represent a certain message, belief, or event, a monument with crappy craftsmanship, such as Elroy Johnson's sculpture of him and a lobster “slapped a coat of bronze paint over the plaster model” (Source F), will result in a crappy reaction. In the same way people look at diamonds differently than trash, people will not consider a cheap, quickly made sculpture as they would a bronze, thoughtfully made
