Finding Common Ground In A Quilt Of A Country And Night Calls

"We are one love, one race; we all come from the same place, we all live in this world together." Trinity Rose's "Love Is the Only River" emphasizes the importance of unity. Her song is heavily influenced by the significance of people coming together and finding ways to make peace, even though we all come from different backgrounds and beliefs. This song is one example of what it means to find common ground. Like Trinity Rose's impactful song, Anna Quindlen's "A Quilt of a Country" and Nadine Gordimer's "Once Upon a Time" express the same idea of finding common ground, along with Lisa Fugard's "Night Calls". These three literature pieces express the same theme of finding common ground through people working through their differences to coexist in unity, along with coming together through their similarities and differences towards one another.

In her story, she states, "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit. Like many improbable ideas, when it actually works, it's a wonder." In these sentences, Anna is discussing the fact that people who are so different can come together and work as one in a tragedy as large as the 9/11 attacks, expressing the theme of coming together and working in unity. Despite the nation's differences in so many categories, they can find common ground and coexist despite their different religions, race, beliefs, backgrounds,