“A Quilt of a Country” is an essay written by Anna Quindlen after the 9/11 attacks on September 11, 2001. At the beginning of her essay, Quindlen claims that the idea of America is impossible because trying to put all the different types of people in one nation seems like it doesn’t work out. She compares America to quilts because quilts are great pieces of art made by combining parts that don’t seem to go together.

In her essay, she says that America is a failure because of all the bad things such as slavery, burning of the crosses, and the sweatshops but Anna Quindlen argues that “amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful.” Anna Quindlen says that historians worry about Americans clinging to the views of certain groups of people because of the past, for example, white people’s views of black people due to slavery in the past, but Anna Quindlen states that people today are no longer separated and they no longer need to avoid each other. Anna Quindlen concludes her essay by saying that even though the idea of putting different types of people in one country is impossible, it can unite the country if it works.

I read this essay in my English class and I honestly didn’t get what the essay was about for a few days but after reading it more and taking notes, I started to understand it more and I honestly found it kind of interesting. I like how she compared America to quilts because of the diversity.