Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Quickwrite 12/6
My reaction to this piece was that Margaret had a really strong opinion on what is happening to America and it was well argued. I think that by listing the things that America used to mean to her, like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, it expressed how the innocence of the country has in a way diminished. She brushes over the topic of Americas involvement in Iraq and i think thats part of her problem with America. She then states, "lets talk, then, not about what you're doing to other people, but about what your doing to yourselves". I thought this quote was really effective because even though she is focusing on our involvement in other countries and how that makes us look bad, it also ruins things back home. The debt we have and the american economy is a result of these decisions. I also found it effective that at the end she says there is still hope and relates to an old British myth. What could have been seen has ineffective in this argument was how in the 4th paragraph on the second page she talked as if America was a person, which kind of lost me in respect to her argument.
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I like how you pointed out how she's not only writing about how America is turning bad, but how it's destroying families and making people bad. I also like how she had an inspirational ending saying there's still hope. This shows she's not just calling out America for being bad, she's saying she believes it can change which looks at it from both points of view.
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ReplyDeleteI really thought she dropped the ball with a lot of the paper though. She felt really disconnected with her audience by using outdated ideas of pop culture and didn't always seem to know what she was talking about. I did like the end though, when she ended on a hopeful note.
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