2024 AP Lang Jimmy Santiago Baca and Value of Posessions Arugment Essay

In a 2019 interview, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca asserted: “In America we value
possessions. We would much rather talk about a new car than talk about a story that happened between
grandfather and me. We’d much rather get on the computer and play video games and enact some cataclysmic
epic than to talk about the epics in our own lives.”

In a 2019 interview, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca asserted: “In America we value
possessions. We would much rather talk about a new car than talk about a story that happened between
grandfather and me. We’d much rather get on the computer and play video games and enact some cataclysmic
epic than to talk about the epics in our own lives.”
Write an essay that argues your position on the extent to which Baca’s claim about the value of possessions is
valid.
1 destructive on a large scale
2 a narrative or story of grand proportions