Question

when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, brings out enormous blessings. a mongrel nation built of ever - is held together by a notion, the notion that though everyone knows that most men than someone. “of all the nations in the is built in nobody’s image,” the historian says because it was built of bits and pieces like the crazy quilts that have been one of its and calico and checks and brocades. out of when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, brings out enormous blessings. different, a great national striving consisting of the oft - told stories of the most pluralistic not of tolerance, but of bigotry. slavery and crosses and the ostracism of the other. in the class and in the news of the lynching of men, the murders of gay men. it is province them that this amounts to “crown thy that amid all the failures is something perhaps they understand it at this moment when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, brings out enormous blessings. so, than the philadelphia of my father, in which jewish boys would walk several blocks out of their way to avoid the irish divide of chester avenue. (i was the product of a mixed marriage, across barely bridgeable lines: an italian girl, an irish boy. how quaint it seems now, how incendiary then.) the brooklyn of francie nolan’s famous tree, the newark of which portnoy complained, even the uninflected wasp suburbs of cheever’s characters: they are ghettos, pure and simple. do the cambodians and the mexicans in california coexist less easily today than did the irish and italians of massachusetts a century ago? you know the answer. what technique does quindlen use to support the idea that america is less polarized now than it was in past history? vivid imagery facts and statistics neutral language

Explanation:

Quindlen uses descriptions like the contrasting neighborhoods of different eras to paint vivid pictures, rather than presenting facts/statistics or using neutral language.

Answer:

vivid imagery