I need help with my body paragraph of what I means to be American?

it means everything to be american if the british had won the revolutionary war we would had never of become americans

Explanation:

The characters were born in diferentes times in  USA.

The aspects in common  of both are:

1) Both were born in United States of America.

2) Both were famous, many people talk about them due to their public life.

3) Mr. Edison was an inventor of many things and Reeve represented a superhero who could change the time of the humanity.  

4) Edison was called a businessman and Reeve was a businessman but at the cinema industry.