s also a hard worker, and many look to the Stature as a role model. The Statue is a huge structure that requires the work of many hard working Americans to maintain every year. In What’s Happening to America? Steinbeck also discusses the government. He writes “We are able to believe that our government is weak, stupid, overbearing, dishonest and inefficient, and at the same time we are deeply convinced that it is the best government in the world, and we would like to impose it upon everyone else.” Americans feel that America is the most powerful nation in the world that should act as a protective hand over the rest of the world. The Statue of Liberty symbolizes a powerful and robust figure that the world looks to for freedom and leadership. The Statue of Liberty’s crown represents the seven continents of the world. This leads Americans to believe that we are in turn responsible for the well being and quality of other countries. If America performs a positive action in a foreign country or domestically, Americans are pleased with the government. Americans also acquire anger when the government does an action that citizens do not approve of. However, Americans are represented in their government and have a choice, because America is a nation build around the idea of freedom. The Statue of Liberty is the source of this idea of freedom. In conclusion, America is a huge nation of people who are to trying to work hard to be as successful as possible, just as the women that the Statue of Liberty exemplifies. The Statue of Liberty literally means Statue of Freedom, and that is the most precise definition an American can have. An American is a free person who is given the right to live his/her life without intervention. The Statue of Liberty symbolizes this freedom to many Americans....
