The Falling Man

The controversy over the photograph “falling man” is that it captures a man before he dies during the horrific terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001. In the article, it states, “The decision to publish dramatic and tragic photographs that depict the horrors of war is never easy.” (Irby, K, 2011) The “falling man” photograph may be very upsetting on many spectrums; however, it captures the reality and truth of what transpired that day. I also think the controversy has to do with the sensitive nature of privacy, in relation to the man’s identity or risking the chance that family recognizing the individual. My concern would be releasing a photograph of this sensitivity without receiving his family’s permission. I believe…

that day, Richard viewed the pictures he took during the event only one seem to catch his eye which was the falling man. Looking at the photo it carried an emotional message behind it that it spoke so many volumes. On September the 12th, 107,000 copy’s were published through the state. The feedback Drew thought he was going to get was not what he expected. Viewers like Bob Messenger, Debora Holets, and Ken Myers was not too pleased about the published photo that published. So many people looked…

There is only so much a news article can say, but a photograph can bring emotion to you that changes your outlook on that situation. For example, a very famous photo by Richard Drew called ‘The Falling Man’, a photograph of the 9/11 attack witnessing the moment a workman from the towers plummeted to the ground after jumping. Even though this event was worldwide renowned, many people were unaware of the actual emotion associated with the event, the terror and the destruction that happened on that…

They are going to do what ever it takes to help our country out! Through thick and thin they will work hard and uphold the value and faith placed in the American flag. The firemen look very dirty, showing how crazy and dangerous their day has been. One fire fighter is wearing a t-shirt that is covered in dust and debris. This shows how serious of an attack it really was! It also says a lot about him as a person, that he is a fearless brave hard working man! The picture depicts firemen that look…

held one-year-old me as she watched the Towers fall. If my mother had been working in those buildings, up on the 90th floor where she had interviewed, my babysitter might have never left the apartment. My sister might have never been born. My mother, who sits across the room stressing over my college applications, might not have been here to watch me graduate. I push those possibilities out of my head because I cannot bear the thought of them; yet, for many people, it is a reality. The families…

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…

Grief Inspired by the Falling Man Photo The Falling Man photograph was in a series of photos taken by photographer Richard Drew, which depicts a man falling in a seemingly peaceful position, vertical to the buildings behind him. This particular photo drew attention because of the position the man took, as opposed to other photos of people falling in panic. The attention gave rise to questions of the identities of these people and why did they jump? This photograph in particular elicits…

Don DeLillo’s novel, “Falling Man” deals with several topics that have surrounded the events that occurred on the tragic day of September 11th, 2001. In particular, I would like to examine how he translates the concept of time and loss. I would like to begin with looking at the passage on page five “In time he heard the sound of the second fall…. He heard the sound of the second fall, or felt the trembling air, the north tower coming down, a soft awe of voice in the distance. That was him…

Authors have been expressing their opinions through writing since the beginning of the new nation. Tom Junod, the author of “The Falling Man,” and Michel- Guillaume Jean de the author of “What Is an American” hope to influence the American population with an epidemic of their own beliefs. Their nonfiction articles exemplify that men become something more than what they were when somebody sees hopefulness, beauty, promise during a specific moment. Tom Junod describes “The Falling Man” as “the…

The reader is thrust in it, an unknown place, and it is to become familiar with it through interaction with its structure. The text provides few guiding lines; although the narration can be said to be lineal, for it goes from the lost of sense of place (A) to the regaining of the sense of place (b) DeLillo gives to its book a rizomatic structure jumping between story lines with the only warning of the separation of paragraphs, thus, the text asks of the reader undivided attention. DeLillo has…