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The Personal Observations Of A Working-Class Historian, By Richard Greenwald

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The 11 September is a date that nobody in the world can forget, especially the US people. The source I found is "September 11 and New York City's Workers: The Personal Observations of a Working-Class Historian" written by Richard Greenwald, here the author analyze the days after the attack from the points of view of the normal workers. It is similar to the short story I read with the name "Fear & Loathing in America" written by Hunter S. Thompson, also this story talks about the day after the attack from the point of view of normal people. The first story I cited impressed me because it is very sincere, the author says how many people in the neighborhood had a story to tell, who had a son dead, who had a cousin dead, who risked to lose his life. Every people had a story to tell but the day after, nobody had …show more content…

In fact, the author realizes that after the attack the USA was in the war and that somebody needed to pay for this account. The author admits that he does not know who is the attacker and he does not know who is the nation to fight back, but somebody needs to pay. In the rest of the story is also present considerations about the president, George Bush, these considerations give another politic point, while in the other story never the author talks about the war and the president, but just about the civilians, this is the important difference between the two stories. A point of contact between the stories is the sense of patriotism, in the first, it is explicit, in fact, the author says that this event creates and increases a patriotism sense that was losing after the attack was normal to see everywhere US flags. Instead, in the second story is more implicit the patriotism, but it shines through the lines for the numerous political discussion in the story and the call to the war because the author wants a

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