In “A Quilt of a Country”, Anna Quindlen’s claim is America is like a quilt. Anna Quindlen states, “America is an improbable idea, a mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts”(paragraph 1). America is like a quilt because a quilt is made up of a lot of different pieces that are put together into one. Just like a quilt, America is made up of different races, ethnicity, and cultures. We’re all made up the same but we claim that we’re all different. Anna Quindlen states, “Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities” (paragraph 4). We’re interwoven, we’re linked closely together. No matter what the situation is we always come