Grant And Lee Bruce Catton Analysis

GRANT AND LEE: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS” by Bruce Catton Choose a paragraph from your selected essay that contains at least three sentences. Is the paragraph organized around the development of a topic? Do you think the organization of that paragraph mirrors that of the entire essay? Explain.
The fifth last paragraph presents a comparison of Grant and Lee in a way that their contrast is very well brought out. This section is organized around the development of a topic about the old and the modern America. The first part describes Grant’s personality as a representation of a rising modern America. “He was a modern man emerging, about to bring on stage the period of machinery, crowded cities and rapid growth of human endeavors." In contrast, Lee's personality represents the exiting traditional American life, beliefs and …show more content…
It contains all the three significant parts of an essay; introduction remarks that explain the context of the writing, the body that presents adequately developed and progressively described ideas and a conclusion that reveals the overall thoughts of the writer about the topic. The first three paragraphs is an introduction explaining that the essay is about two different generals who led armies that were fighting in the civil war, in the end, it explains that the war ended after the two signed a peace agreement. From the fourth to the fifth last paragraph, the author presents their differences beginning with their originality and then their fighting driving forces. The last four paragraphs is a conclusion of the entire essay. The sentence “ and in his background were family, culture, and tradition” described Lee. He was fighting for a culture and a tradition that he had brought up with; aristocratic. Grant was fighting for change and growth and, therefore, the sentence“one who was self-reliant to a fault, cared hardly anything for the past but who had a sharp eye for the future", describes

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