9/11 Griffin Analysis

Responding with a Loss of Innocence Perhaps one of my favorite parts of the reading comes from the very beginning of the passage after the description of a nucleus. Creating a setting that can only creating a setting that only could be described as the aftermath of war: pain, destruction, regret, innocence, and unknown. This paragraph set the tone for the entire passage because not only does it introduce the topic of war and its horrors but establishes an emotional aspect because the world once through a young girl’s eyes changes at the realization of what laid at her home a few blocks down. The progression and anticipation of what will come next leaves Griffin’s audience wanting to learn more. Through reading this paragraph also ties in an interesting element of perspective. Throughout the reading Griffin reflects back and forth to her own personal tales and Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler. However, at the start of the passage Griffin in having a conversation with a woman who is never referenced again in the piece until the end of the passage. This
Looking at the perspective of a child growing up into the horrors of world rings true to probably many of us in class especially to recent attacks in Paris. When 9/11 occur most kids did not realize what was happening and didn’t learn until they were older the effects it has had on many American lives. However, now that we are older we can see the severity of what had happen and can come to the realization that something just as horrible has the chance of occurring again. It is a transition of loss of innocence because it something that could be ignored or not talked about anymore. “One finds the water now only by the city lights that cease to shine at its edges.” (233). It is this realization that Griffin discusses that forms a connection of pathos to her