WRA-130 Ellie Jensen

First the author keeps refering to a personification of America. She introduces us to an America that she grew up with, that she remembers it seems fondly of. An America of simplicity and traditions. She discusses all the success during the time periods she refers to noting all the great achievements that are marked in history. I believe that the author does this because its almost in place as a cushion for criticism. She is stating all the good quailites of America almost as a reminder of what former golry it could possibly return to. She refers to America as hopeful and having all the best intentions to protect others, to take in the weak and less desired, to always be a place of protection for citizens. Refering to America as an individual I feel is a way a reader may connect feeling that because they are an American citizen they are a portion that makes the America a whole. However I did not like How after she criticizes what America has become, she poses no solutions it leaves a sour notion in a readers mind about one of the most powerful countries in the world. I feel like someone who is posing herself as an average American citizen its pointing out issues that she doesn't necessarily have full conclusions to nor understand the entirety of these issues. I feel like for this text to have purpose she should have posed solutions to everything she was calling America out on.