99 points which quotation most accurately explains anna quindlen’s purpose for writing “a quilt of a country”? “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.“ “and there is a grudging fairness among the citizens of the united states that eventually leads most to admit that,…the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or grandparents.” “one of the things that it stands for is this vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live, if not side by side, then on either side of the country’s chester avenues.” “once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism.”

“One of the things that it stands for is this vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live, if not side by side, then on either side of the country’s Chester Avenues.”

romeo and juliet, family means a lot more than a husband, wife, and 2.5 kids. "family" means everyone from the head of the household down to the lowly servants—anyone who could possibly owe any the capulets or montagues loyalty. if you're thinking "street gang" or "mafia movie," you're not too far off. that's why romeo and juliet's little love affair isn't just going to get them grounded; it's a betrayal of absolutely everything—like dating someone from a rival school or, yeah, a rival gang. we might think of family as a place of refuse and security, but, in romeo and juliet, kinship is more often a source of danger and battle.

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