AN IMAGE OF HEROIC TRIUMPH
In Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation, the author portrays ordinary people of a certain generation as having qualities of greatness and heroism. He tells stories of average people that lived inspiring lives through many hardships, and declares today's society as the beneficiary of their challenging work and commitment. Brokaw's generous and proficient use of imagery helps to persuade the reader to believe that the people of "the greatest generation" are, indeed, heroic. He defines the strength and resilience of "the greatest generation" by what they were able to confront and overcome.
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when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other
..Once again the American people understood the magnitude of the challenge, the importance of an unparallel national commitment, and, most of all, the certainty that only one resolution was......
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