When i first read the article i got stuck on one of the paragraphs when Kumar was talking about the world trade centers. Certain lines from the essay just got stuck in my head. For instance when a writer was quoted as saying "it looked like a desperate ballet: some seemed to be flying their arms sweeping gracefully as the picked up speed." It was just so graphic with contrasting images of people falling in a really odd way. Its completely the opposite of how i saw the events and i was distracted by the writers unsensitivity to the events taking place. The inclusion of this quote made me wonder about what the author of the essay was trying to get at. Why would Kumar include this passage the sees beauty in the horrific deaths of others?"
When i went back through looking for things that interested me i found a variety of other quotes. I liked the one describing how kumar sees planes through immigrants eyes. He writes "the plane in flight represents the the journey that, when undertaken in the future, will take them to the promised land." I thought about how i see planes, and to me they are an escape from the reality of life rather than a gateway to a promised land. Then for some, planes are just another aspect of life, those that fly them, those that maintain them, those that work on them. Even the people who use them regularly to get from one polace of work to another.