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Response to some of the Lost in the Field of Vision essay

“Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11” chronicles the rhetoric associated with the day of the most profound mass murder and largest terrorist attack ever committed on United States soil. The author, Diana Taylor, takes the reader through a personal account of what that day meant to her, explaing her personal feelings about what happened.

I feel I have to agree with her when she asks if entertainment has rendered the live just one more reiteration. We are entertained by progressively more graphic and gruesome TV series and movies, all delivered to us through our screens and monitors. She brings to light how we are vera very television-focused society. When the September 11^th broadcasts were coming through Diana Taylor’s television she didn’t really get its significance at first.

She continues by expressing her inability to make sense of what she was witnessing on the TV. It all seemed like a plotline or a Hollywood scenario she’d already seen. I especially like the line “This looked like one of those surgical strikes that the U.S. military claims to have perfected. Our aviation technology and terror tactics turned against us.” It draws attention to the notion of how everything is so controlled, so orchestrated, like a surgery. Everything is given to us at face value. We see what we are meant to see. Terrorists methodically deal out tragedies to convey their terror message, and the news media specifically accounts exactly which parts the terror we’re supposed to be informed of. It is all out of the control of the individual. The media machine was chuggin along ohh yaaa what a nice piece of influence

No Snapshots in the Attic:

The granddaughter of the Cherokee woman had a restricted understanding of story of her family. The family had little money and time to spend on preserving keepsakes from the past. The author’s mother discarded an old photo of her father toward the beginning of the essay saying that it would only gather dust. I think the author was giving a real example of her family’s attitude toward family history. She explained her Grandmother’s background and traditions and it further emphasized their particular brand of family stories. It was an oral tradition that recorded their particular ancestry. They spoke to each other and interacted they way Cherokee tribe members would have done passing information along to the next generation. The grandmother’s death records were bare, because she had no documentation; her manner was not to have anything written down. That’s how it seems she left. It kind of gave her writer granddaughter a hard time, but well, I guess she could have learned a lesson from it all. She should listen to people and retain what was said when it was said. Idk…