Places Across America (Location Key)

The nine-year-old narrator of "Shall Not Perish" is inspired by the pictures in the art museum in Jefferson to think "of men and women and children . . . from all over the United States" (110). This grows later into his epiphany about a nation undivided by region: "North and South and East and West. . . . It was America, and it covered all the western earth" (115).