Pick Any 4 of These Questions and Answer in Well-Developed Paragraphs

“The Falling Man”

Pick any 4 of these questions and answer in well-developed paragraphs.

1. The first paragraph begins and is dominated by the Junod’s subjective description of The Falling Man. The paragraph ends, however, with objective facts about The Falling Man. Discuss the effect of this organization.

2. On page 3, Junod opens a series of sentences with some variation of “They jumped..” What is the effect of this repetition?

3. “And it was, at last, the sight of the jumpers that provided the corrective to those who insisted on saying that what they were witnessing was "like a movie," for this was an ending as unimaginable as it was unbearable: Americans responding to the worst terrorist attack in the history of the world with acts of heroism, with acts of sacrifice, with acts of generosity, with acts of martyrdom, and, by terrible necessity, with one prolonged act of -- if these words can be applied to mass murder -- mass suicide.”

Discuss the effect of this long sentence. Why didn’t Junod separate this information into separate sentences?

4. “And yet if one calls the New York Medical Examiner's Office to learn its own estimate of how many people might have jumped, one does not get an answer but an admonition: ‘We don't like to say they jumped. They didn't jump. Nobody jumped. They were forced out, or blown out.’”

Why does the NY Medical Examiner’s Office disapprove of the verb “jumped” in context to those who did jump from the buildings? (Think of the connotation of “jump” in this context.)

5. Discuss Junod’s opinion of “The Falling Man” as found in the section that begins “Photographs lie” (ending with “…memory and picking up speed.”).

6. Discuss the final sentence of the article. What does Junod mean by this?