Are we at war? The once cheerful cartoons on the small television monitors get tuned into a muted vivid image of a plane heading toward the twin towers. Than another. Flames begin to blaze as smoke surges through the air, the oxygen we must breathe now. The buildings immediately tilt as our world starts to break, humans’ ordinary humans have a life or death decision to make. But do they really? Because, either way the ones attacked physically need to choose how they’ll die that day. The acceptance of the attack can be perceived as living, going with the collapse of the buildings or it can be saving your last chance of dignity and jumping. Jumping hundreds of stories from the life you have lived for years to your death. There is no right answer
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It can be augmented that other countries want to be the number one country in some production and not have us to stand in their way. Vulnerability can be defined as, “the quality of being easily hurt or attacked or even worse open to injury, or appearing as if you are”. On a personal level becoming vulnerable can be described as having your school day be interrupted because of an attack on the east coast which is three thousand miles away but that’s just a number when you consider that your family or unknown family’s lives have been altered. Even though you’re not the one being injured or questioning your life because of the nation’s vulnerability doesn’t mean you’re not affected. With this said, Kingsolver is against the natural response to a monumental attack such as 9/11 to have the response of rage and the want and need to get back, in sum to seek revenge. But we should open our eyes and minds to realize, “the fact that our nation is not universally beloved; we are also despised” (1). Being despised as a nation can be based off the fact that we were and are ahead in technology and are wealthier and offer a lot of opportunity to the poor or the lesser. The opportunities and our achievements as a nation can be a great success to us but create jealousy in our neighboring countries. We can possibly also be seen as selfish by only taking care of the people in our nation and not offering assistance across the seas. Selfishness can be ones success but another’s hatred and spark to
It can be augmented that other countries want to be the number one country in some production and not have us to stand in their way. Vulnerability can be defined as, “the quality of being easily hurt or attacked or even worse open to injury, or appearing as if you are”. On a personal level becoming vulnerable can be described as having your school day be interrupted because of an attack on the east coast which is three thousand miles away but that’s just a number when you consider that your family or unknown family’s lives have been altered. Even though you’re not the one being injured or questioning your life because of the nation’s vulnerability doesn’t mean you’re not affected. With this said, Kingsolver is against the natural response to a monumental attack such as 9/11 to have the response of rage and the want and need to get back, in sum to seek revenge. But we should open our eyes and minds to realize, “the fact that our nation is not universally beloved; we are also despised” (1). Being despised as a nation can be based off the fact that we were and are ahead in technology and are wealthier and offer a lot of opportunity to the poor or the lesser. The opportunities and our achievements as a nation can be a great success to us but create jealousy in our neighboring countries. We can possibly also be seen as selfish by only taking care of the people in our nation and not offering assistance across the seas. Selfishness can be ones success but another’s hatred and spark to