Not a whole lot has been written about the 200+ people who committed suicide by jumping from the top of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001. There was a specific moment, as they held tightly to the windows high up above the New York streets with the relentless heat and smoke drawing closer and closer, that they decided to jump and, in that one moment, they become angels returning to their point of origin. “Falling Man” focuses largely upon the identity of only one of these jumpers shown in a popular picture taken by a man named Richard Drew. “Falling Man” is made up of various rhetorical devices that, sooner or later, give away the arguments that the author has towards the picture. Utilization of rhetoric in “Falling Man” allows
