比较和对照范文-(1).doc

Directions: Read and write down differences between GRANT and LEE GRANT AND LEE: A STUDY IN CONTRASTSby Bruce Catton “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast” was written as a chapter of The American Story, a collection of essays by noted historians.??In this study, as in most of his other writing, Bruce Catton does more than recount the facts of history: he shows the significance within them.??It is a carefully constructed essay, using contrast and comparison as the entire framework for his explanation.When Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in the parlor of a modest house at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, to work out the terms for the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, a great chapter on American life came to a close, and a great new chapter began.????These men were bringing the Civil War to its virtual finish.??To be sure, other armies had yet to surrender, and for a few days the fugitive Confederate government would struggle desperately and vainly, trying to find some way to go on living now that its chief support was gone.??But in effect it was all over when Grant and Lee signed the papers.??And the little room where they wrote out the terms was the scene of one of the poignant, dramatic contrasts in American History.????They were two strong men these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that through them, had come into final collision.????Back of Robert E Lee was the notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in American life.????Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition… the age of chivalry transplanted to a New World which was making its own legends and its own myths.??He embodied a way of life that had come down through the age of knighthood and the English country squire.??America was a land that was beginning all over again, dedicated to nothing much more complicated than the rather hazy b