Doc Roldan’s Blog: Writing on Writing

alexh07 October 12th, 2007

The article begins with portraying the “shopping mall” as the monument of America, over-emphasizing it be a “symbol” of American culture. Though, this may be true on some aspects, I do not believe that the shopping center should be the first thing that comes to mind when outsiders think of the United States, which is how the author, Kenneth T. Jackson, makes it seem to be. The history of the evolution from the times of the 19^th century in England, Greece, and Italy is intriguing and informative and perhaps the best part of the article. It explains how malls have basically taken over the world, literally. It also informs the reader of the prominence of under-ground malls throughout Europe and how dependent society has become on them. The second part of the article proved to be more un-interesting than the first because of the large amount of detail incorporated into it on the history of the malls in America. Overall, one can find this article to be quite interesting, but not as interesting as it is enlightening.

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