Anna Quindlen's A Quilt Of A Country

When someone steps foot on this American continent, what is it that they see? Individuals with radiant chocolate brown to delicate light skin living amongst each other? A society fit together with various entities, with several unique cultural backgrounds? Or perhaps a variety of ethnicities interwoven, demonstrating a nation that manages to represent themselves as a whole; despite how diverse it can be presented to foreign eyes. As muddled as it may appear to others, individuals such as Anna Quindlen and Bill Clinton manage to elucidate the actuality that humankind has the ability of finding commonalities. In “A Quilt of a Country”, Anna Quindlen illustrates how the American society has been through a series of trials and confliction, yet

In her article, it states, “These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit. Like many improbably ideas, when it actually works, it’s a wonder” (Quindlen, 6). This quote illustrates the idea that, even if our nation is constructed by a pluralistic society, humanity has managed to unrealistically strive. This quote reinforces the idea of humanity living together as one human race, because society has demonstrated being able to see past their differences and work together. Quindlen’s article also states, “But patriotism is partly taking pride in this unlikely ability to throw all of us together in a country that across in length and breadth is as different as a dozen countries and still be able to call it by one name” (Quindlen, 6). In other words, Quindlen is depicting the implication that even as society is unique within itself, the nation has managed to set that aside and see each other as beings worth caring for; rather than disparate individuals. This quote is significant, given that the observation helps explain the vision that humanity can have a future living as one human race. To conclude, Anna Quindlen uses her article to help the reader understand the concept that mankind has succeeded in accepting any difference within an individual, thus enabling society to thrive as