Knowing that Quindlen wrote the text in response to the attacks of September 11, I better understand her viewpoint that tragedy often unites American citizens. In addition, I understand how Quindlen wants to persuade readers to rethink the meaning and value of American identity
The arguments provided can be determining to follow the author's posture however they can be contrasted so I can't really accept it and follow the author's Idea. They are not as strong to do so, at least for me.
Explanation:
First of all, I have to say that to understand the central Idea I have to identify the main topic. We have the crisis, the consequences, and origin. But, all of those come together to construct the main topic, they speak and describe the same element to provide principal and secondary ideas about it. Second, the posture that the author took is very obvious, in every text, the author will state comments in favor or opposing the object of study and provide arguments with enough evidence to support his or her claims. Then, in third place after analyzing the whole posture and object I just needed to establish a connection between both and see if they convinced me to accept his point of view as factually correct or not. They had enough evidence, but I reserve my position as arbitrary because I believe it wasn’t that strong to perceive it as the only truth.
