Kimberly Raymond
Journal 3
Ticket# 20249
English 100
Professor T.Peralta
Margaret Atwood A Letter to America 3/23/2013

Dear Atwood,

America, indeed, has lost her way. We are still your well-intentioned neighbors, but without the proper guidance. Some of our heroes were fallen and we never quite recovered. We have come a long way from now, but were struggling now to get back onto the tracks. While we've made some unflattering decisions during tough times in our past, we've always rebounded with a sharper sense of justice and a higher level of grace. Plessy v. Ferguson turned into Brown v. the Board of Education; Japanese internment camps have since been denounced as a tragic blunder; and Joe McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee is now deemed un-American itself.

But like the everlasting wisdom of the men and women of conscience and courage who helped make America that city upon a hill, we are also haunted by these ghosts from our past. The surreal period of time following September 11th was regarded by some as the New McCarthyism. And frankly, this era of fear and mistrust, of government overstepping its bounds, of vitriolic condemnation of dissenting opinion, continues apace. United States Congressman Dennis Kucinich our media. This essay "A Letter to America" by Margaret Atwood had a creative format in which it was written as a letter for the authorities and ordinary citizens of America to demonstrate that at one point in our history we had ideals about a fair nation of peace and freedom but somehow has lost its way and become too involved in our military