Similarities Between 9/11 Attacks 'And Leap' By Brian Doyle

September 11th 2001 was a monstrosity of a day filled with intense fear, heightened anxiety, and blood curdling screams. The Twin Towers, located in lower Manhattan, New York, were demolished by plane hijackers involved with the group Al-Qaeda. Two skyscrapers that had once seemed to reach for the clouds, now crumbled into dust. This series of events caused world-wide attention, and September 11th will be forever memorialized each year across the United States. Because of this new altitude resulting from this terrorist attack, many writers were motivated to illustrate the actions in their own way to explain their points of view on that bleak day. The authors conveyed the series of events with different attitudes, vocabulary, and writing styles. For instance, “9/11 Attacks” and “Leap” by Brian Doyle are two

While “9/11 Attacks” gives the reader a feeling of being informed, it also can fill the audience with despair and melancholy. Additionally, the second piece has more impact on the reader because it also brings a sense of optimism to the brutal attacks on America. “Leap” along with giving the reader hope, also presents the audience with another way to look at a negative event. The piece written by Brian Doyle, describes the jumpings in a positive way. Furthermore, he wrote how this heartbreaking tragedy brought two co-workers, two lovers or two friends together when they leaped and flew off the ledge into the air. Doyle displays the connection that the victims had when they jumped together such as, “A couple leaped from the south tower, hand in hand. They reached for each together and their hands met and they jumped” (Doyle 165). The style Doyle writes with demonstrates a sense of hope to the reader, and using the couple holding hands was a way of connecting with the reader about tragedy and how tragedy brings hope and bonding among