Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."
What is the denotative meaning of fault lines in this excerpt?
Once these disparate parts were held together by a common
enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified
fence of communism. With the end of the cold war there was
the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and
distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the
left side of the hyphen-African-American, Mexican-
American, Irish-American-would overwhelm the right.
lines that are drawn when placing blame
areas of defense in times of war
long cracks in the surface of the earth
breaks in modern American Society