Christopher Eric Hitchens 'Essay' The Lovely Stones

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English American author and journalist, Christopher Eric Hitchens, asserts his opinion on the unification, or lack thereof, of the Parthenon in his adaptation of his essay, “The Lovely Stones,” published in the July of 2009. Hitchens informs his readers, the modern youth, about the importance of this topic, and wants said readers to sympathize with his point and to do something to fix a travesty. Hitchens conveys a disappointed then hopeful tone to highlight his desire for a unification of the scattered pieces of the Parthenon. Hitchens also uses anecdotes from the Parthenon’s history to fortify the importance of this union.
With harsh word choices like, “...desecration and dilapidation,” in paragraph three, and in his defense of his analogy

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