Understanding the central idea of Quindlen's text must be based on your interpretation and personal perception of that text. For that reason, I can't answer this question for you, but I'll show you how to do it.
Although you haven't shown the text this question refers to, you can find questions like yours that feature the article "A Quilt of a Country" written by Anna Quindlen.
In this article, we can access the following ideas:
- The US is a very diverse country with many different cultures and ethnic groups.
- This diversity creates a certain separation between people and not a sense of national community.
- However in times of national disaster, all people unite, creating a great community where all cultural differences between them are forgotten.
- This can be seen in the September 11 attacks, where all Americans united in solidarity and unity, brought about by the mourning of the terrorist attack.
Based on this, we can conclude that the text is showing you that Americans are a people who encourage individualism, but unite in difficult times, showing that even in the midst of diversity it is possible to create unity. You can use these concepts to answer your question.
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