Making a Home in a Restless World - Introduction

Question 1

audience

Answer 1

• from the beginning, our heroes

- our promised land

Question 2

purpose

Answer 2

• everything about us is mongrel, from race to language, and we are stronger for it

Question 3

style

Answer 3

• only a populace drunk on driving (play on words)
• have dug the most canals, laid the most rails, built the most roads and airports of any nation (listing)
• of shifting ground are familiar and seductive to Americans, this nation of restless movers (play on words)
• the belief that movement is inherently good, staying put is bad; that uprooting brings tolerance (listing)

Question 4

occasion

Answer 4

• one hundred years after the official closing of the frontier

Question 5

tone

Answer 5

• words like “unglamorous” “dead-end” “played-out” (negative)

Question 6

which part of the Task defines what stance the Warrant should be justifying

Answer 6

… to develop his perspective about moving…