Sunday, January 2, 2011

Chapters 14-16: "This is the beginning - from 'I' to 'we.'"

"The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side-meat stewing in a single pot, the silent, stone-eyed women; behind, the children listening with their souls to words their minds do not understand.  The night draws down.  The baby has a cold.  Here, take this blanket.  It's wool.  It was my mother's blanket - take it for the baby.  This is the thing to bomb.  This is the beginning - from 'I' to 'we.'
     The Western States are nervous under the beginning change.  Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action.  A half-million people moving over the country; a million more restive, ready to move; ten million more feeling the first nervousness.
      And tractors turning the multiple furrows in the vacant land."

Please complete a second-draft read of chapter 14 and in a short essay, show how the ideas expressed in Chapter 14 are illustrated in the next two chapters.  Be sure to include at least one quoted instance from Chapter 15 and 16 that help to support your claims.

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