The Quilt: A Short Story

In this speech I will be talking about whether or not I think that individuals can live together as one human race. I will use quotes from three passages. Those three passages will be Quilt of a Country by Anna Quindlen, Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer, and Rituals of Memory by Kimberly M. Blaeser. All three of these passages have something to do with diversity. In conclusion, I don’t think that individuals can live together as one human race.

A quilt of a country is an essay about the idea that every man in the united states is

The differences that are present in America have engendered countless conflicts all over the nation for many years; Americans have clashed and exchanged blows due to their diversity. Though showered with such troubles, the country, surprisingly, remains whole and has not yet dispersed. Shortly after the tragedy in New York on September 11, 2001, author Anna Quindlen wrote the article, A Quilt of a Country, communicating what exactly America is in her eyes. Through her argument, she expresses that America is a remarkable nation filled with people who are able to unify once there is a common objective, despite carrying warring differences and quarreling once before. Quindlen starts by first presenting the troubles frequently heard in the news,

Today I’m going to talk about three story from the english book collections one. The books that I will be talking about are “A Quilt Of A Country”, “Once Upon A Time” , and “The Gettysburg Address”. First I will be talking about “A Quilt Of A Country” and what the theme is. Also, i would be writing about how these stories are still today connected to today’s life.

The little Chinese Seamstress which was written by Dai Sijie in 2000 tells a story about re-education in communist China under the rule of Chairman Mao. The narrator tells the story from his point of view (The only exception being some interviews he conducts) and explains his interest in literature and continuing “conventional” education. This suggests that the narrator is still immature and does not have concrete ideals on what his purpose and goals are.

Ryunosuke Satoro once said, “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Satoro is saying that alone you are small but together you are united and huge. America is able to succeed despite being an improbable idea due to it’s ability to unite as one under duress and join together and join as one unit despite all the differences present among the nation as a whole. America’s success is partially because of their ability to unify during times of crisis.

Marth E. Keech created her quilt “Baltimore, Maryland, ‘‘Album” quilt” in c. 1861 using wool, silk, and cotton. Just as the title suggests, the painting subject is a quilt. The painting is currently being exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas. It is unusually large at 85 7/8 by 85 ½ by 1 inches. The piece can only be seen from a front view perspective because it is displayed on the wall.

"Where are my parents?" She asked Sam's dad when he walked in the room, a rifle in his hands. "Where are my god damn parents!" She screamed when he didn't reply.

“America is an improbable idea.”, an unexpected and eye-opening, yet simple statement Anna Quindlen uses to start her argument in “A Quilt of a Country”. In her writing, she speaks about how the “land of the free and home of the brave” is a discordant plan. The author supports her position by describing how American children are taught about the bigotry of their ancestors, how balkanized the country is with self-segregation and how all men were “created equal” but everyone thinks he is better than another. Quindlen’s argument is in fact one logical conclusion. The concept of America, on the surface, does seem improbable. However, she ends her composition unconvinced herself.

In Marilyn Nelson Waniek’s The Century Quilt a strong sense of structure, tone, and imagery is employed to develop complex meanings that the speaker wants to convey to her audience. By organizing each stanza chronologically, using a nostalgic tone, and allowing for imagery to represent more than what is written, Waniek successfully creates a theme- family is a source of comfort and endures the course of life.

In the book The Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, Luo and the Little Seamstress become lovers at least that is what they are being described as. Luo has taken it upon himself to educate the Little Seamstress because she hasn't been educated and his attraction to her makes him want to help her become a better form of herself. He has read to her and now is teaching her how to swim. Luo sees the Little Seamstress as a project and that he needs to make her a more knowledgeable person by having to teach and educate her.

After he saw her nodding in agreement, it compelled him to discuss about how well he made his way into the social fabric of the Ryanites. “Okay, so maybe it did shape my perceptions regarding people live in the society on the surface, but no matter what, there’s nothing that will dissuade me from knowing that the Dweller world is–and has always been for a long time–in a state of Anarchy and chaos. Because of my foster father, all that is going to change, and I know it.”

Today after school I started my second blanket for the children in the hospital. I thought this blanket would be harder to do because it was thicker but it actually wasn’t too bad. The only problem was on two of the sides, on the bottom fleece fabric, it was thicker on the edges. At first, I didn’t want to cut it off because it would make the blanket smaller but I tried cutting the top and the bottom at the same time and it couldn’t even cut through because the bottom was so thick! I ended up cutting the thicker sides off because it would have taken me twice as long as the first one and the first one took about two and half hours! Even though the material was thicker I felt like this blanket went a lot fast than the other blanket.

“Hello, anyone home!”Mimi exclaimed, after noticing that Steve had zoned out. “Look, I know that Pete was just telling us stories to scare us, but haven’t you heard about the missing kids at the Tunnel Road graveyard? Or the families that went there and went crazy?”

The short stories, "The Story of an Hour" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings" were both written in the 1800 's. The stories are both written by Kate Chopin, a female author. The period in which these stories were written gave impact on other female writers to produce stories too. The literary devices Chopin uses in both these stories show how educated female writers were at the time. The way the author, Kate Chopin, uses many literary devices in her works, "The Story of an Hour" and "A Pair of Silk Stockings", such as location, imagery and characterization.