Analysis Of The Attacks Of 9 / 11 And The Issue Of Survivor's Guilt

The thundering sound of the bomb blast could be heard for miles. Men, women, and children run frantically in order to find shelter, being blinding by the massive amounts of dust that have caused the sky to turn yellow. Mothers are scavenging for their children, who were playing games outside, now stuck deep in the rubble of buildings that have collapsed on top of them. Houses have been destroyed, families have been obliterated and innocent lives have been lost. For many around the world, situations like these have become a part of everyday life. In A Pure, High Note of Anguish, author Barbara Kingsolver describes the confusion and questions that arose after the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11th. 9/11 was the largest terrorist

If there is one day I dread most upon its arrival, it would be 9/11. Sure there was an immense amount of strength as a nation represented, following the terrorists attacks, but it also brought a great amount of grief and sorrow. I remember watching videos of innocent people jumping from windows in the twin towers hoping to escape the terror. These people believed there was no one to help and no one to help them. They lost hope. In “Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11” written by Peggy Noonan, published in The Wall Street Journal on September 11th 2016, Alison Crowther—Welles Crowther’s mom—recalls the courageous actions to save the lives of others, made by her son on this horrific day. Noonan utilizes pathos, ethos, asyndeton, and

September 11, 2001 is a day that shook the United States to its core. Millions of Americans felt the pain, the loss, and the anger that came with the attack on their nation. It was a day of mourning, and when it comes to days of mourning it is difficult putting one’s pain into words. However, Leonard Pitts Jr. was able to move past the emotion. He put into his words, not only his own feelings, but the feelings of an entire nation. Pitts conveys the emotion felt after the terror attacks in his essay “Sept. 12, 2001: We’ll go forward from this moment” through his mournful, angry, and righteous tone.

On the morning of September 11, 2001 millions of people were in shock the moment they received news that the World Trade Center was hit. The images from this horrific day flooded the media’s television screens and newspaper articles. Perhaps the most gruesome images shown were those of people jumping out of the building as they were collapsing. Tom Junod, a writer for the Esquire magazine, illustrates his perspective of this shocking incident through pictures, media coverage, and depicting people’s reactions in his article The Falling Man. Tom Junod’s article should be read by anyone who believes they have felt all there is to feel from the 9/11 attack. He will prove otherwise that there is indeed still much emotion to

At the scene of the bombing, “A local hospital administrator explained modestly, ‘With the enormous outpouring of medical volunteers we received, it would have been nearly impossible not to have done a great job’” (Ray 2). After the terrorist attack of the twin towers, it was the survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing who gave the 9/11 victims the most effective support. Janet Walker made the statement, “We’re the only ones who can truly say, ‘I know how you feel’ (Tanner 1). Kathleen Treanor, a woman who lost her daughter and both of her in-laws, said “It’s an immediate connection” (Tanner 1).

September 11, 2001 brought many different feelings that were new to Americans. Americans had not experienced something of this magnitude in their own country. Even to this day, America continues to resonate what took place in our culture and in politics. The magnitude is definitely shown throughout many songs, books, and television shows that were created and released immediately following 9/11 (Melnick, 64). They try to illustrate the on-going thoughts of what happened and the attitudes that have evolved due to this tragedy.

In September 11, 2001, the United States recalled this day as a day of tragedy, sadness, terrorism, and trauma. The 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center not only took the lives of people, but it also gave the individuals who survived and experienced the event post traumatic stress disorder after the event. This topic has been studied and interviews have been conducted with those individuals who had Unmet Mental Health Care Need 10 - 11 years after the tragic event collecting the results from 2011 - 2012 World Trade Center Health Registry. Unmet Mental Health Care Need 10 - 11 years after the 9/11 terrorist

9/11’s Impact in Association with Grief and its Duration The grieving process affects everyone differently. Grief can cause serious mental stress, and this can be proven with a variety of different sources we have reviewed in class. In the television show Rescue Me, Tommy Gavin, a former 9/11 rescuer, struggles to cope with the grief of losing his fellow firemen, including his cousin, and other victims. Charlie Fineman, in the film

Director, Rory O’Conner, in his documentary film 9/11: A Press for the Truth, portrays many facts from the 9/11 terrorist attack. The author has a clear purpose, to expose information about the attack, and defy what majorities of people think, he reveals the undiscovered aspects of the attack; which may have been purposely withheld from the public. He also gives credit and bases his documentary in some unfortunate group of woman called “The Jersey Girls”. He, O’Conner, adopts different tones from different personas, from harsh and severe, to soft, sad and unfortunate tones to appeal to all kinds of audience. The author opens the documentary by impacting images to the audience about the terrorist attack.

The dreadful occurrence of 9/11 is in and of itself a horrible reality that is a fact of American history. However, the Bush administration attempted to alter that reality by turning that event into something else. According to Nuzzo, the only way the Bush administration could have made it seem as if America as an “absolute victim,” free of any fault, was to mark the event as the beginning of conflict between the two sides (338). To say that 9/11 was the effect of unprecedented evil was the only way that Bush could use 9/11 as a cause for invading Iraq and hunting down Hussein and bin Laden (Nuzzo 338). The messages and propaganda put forth by the media and government following 9/11 and leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq persuaded

Many people, especially among those directly exposed, were likely to develop long-lasting mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Long-term studies found that young children with direct exposure to 9/11 had significantly high rates of aggression, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Adolescents, who are more likely to understand what had happened, and mothers of children, were also affected greatly. Elevated rates of depression in New York City adolescents and mothers were found a year after 9/11. Mothers’ psychological problems also affected their children. Whether a mother had PTSD or depression was linked to rates of behavior problems in children. From these studies, it has been concluded that the most vulnerable were young children. However, direct exposure has been shown to play a small, yet significant role on the severity of the mental health problems prevalent in people of all

When this book was written, people still couldn’t put their feelings into words. This was the worst terrorist attack in American history, and people today still have a difficult time understanding what happened and why. Thomas Schell Sr.’s response to trauma represents all of America in the wake of 9/11. While losing the ability to speak isn’t common, many Americans felt unsure of what to say and how to react. Foer highlights this in his novel by seldomly mentioning the actual tragedy that occurred.

In Judith Herman’s book, Trauma and Recovery, she discusses her research and work with trauma survivors. In her book, she writes that, “traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life” (Herman 24). She explores the idea that trauma is as individual as it is common, with reactions and the journey to the post-traumatic self similar despite differences in events. In the case of Barbara Gordon, while the event may vary, her physical and mental trauma can be compared to America’s fear of its forfeiture of power to terror and the loss of the towers after September 11, 2001. Trauma is about more than just the physical ramifications; when the physical aspect is fixed, Barbara’s legs and the building of the 1 World Trade Center, the mental and emotional trauma still remain.

Collective trauma is a condition where a traumatic memory is triggered for a group of people. It is a result of an event that has an impact on a group of people rather than individuals. 100 and 1,000 creat a network, they have trauma among the community, they can feel it with whole (Raleigh presentation, February 9, 2017). Collective trauma is a term that has been constantly evoked when describing the consequences of mass atrocities, such as terrorist attacks and wars. In spite of its increasing usage, there is little agreement about what it actually entails. A review of the literature on collective trauma suggests that, for the most part, relevant social science research has formed largely around the psychological-sociological divide(Raleigh,

September 11th changed the lives of many Americans, irrevocably. The horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon altered the way American’s viewed their positions within the world, not to mention their lives and their safety. The attacks brought terrorism to the forefront of national attention, in every aspect. The government became immediately immersed in an effort to understand and defeat terrorism, and simultaneously, the media, with its perverse fascination with violence and profit-driven espousal to round-the-clock, up-to-the-minute coverage, demonstrated an obsession with the attacks, by broadcasting almost nothing but the latest developments in the search and rescue efforts and investigations