Response of " Seeing the Past in Present Tense"

After reading “Seeing the Past in Present Tense” by Paula Levine, I have gained a lot more knowledge of the term “monument.” I thought monument was just something that people create to remember someone’s death and can only be used on a person. The Article taught me that a monument could also used as something like a statue to memorize significant events. After reading the article, I feel a monument is something more than just to let others remember; it is something that supposed to build to exist forever. The article brought the general ideas of monument to its reader in a very interesting way. It started describing with the highway in California to a list of example of different monuments. It also talks about how American monument activity was inherited from Europe, and had become more active and transformed into more social, political aspects instead of the original representational form in 1960s. I have better knowledge of monument after reading the article and really agreed with Paula Levine that monuments are gradually getting forgotten in our everyday life. Instead of using monuments as landmarks, we should think of its significance every time we talk about it.