In The Ruins Of The Future

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In The Ruins Of The future Throughout the years technology has advanced beyond our imagination. In the days of 9/11, The World Trade Center was basically all sorts of businesses from around the world. For example, it estimates to about 500 businesses such as state office, law firms, financial businesses, Port Authority of NY, artist studios. In the essay “In the Ruins of the Future,” There are many important aspects on the essay the author Don DeLillo talks about many objects, the change of time, and lack of technology and the sense of terror that changes the action of the people and made them afraid. Objects were a major part throughout the essay. “There are a hundred thousand stories crisscrossing New York, Washington, and the world. Where we were, whom we know, what we’ve seen or heard. Men running in suits and ties, women who’d lost their shoes, cops running from the skydive of all that towering steel” (DeLillo 334). These objects represent how people dress, they need it for work, it creates basic order and since they are gone society is out of control. Secondly, there were other objects found in Union Square Park such as flags, flower beds, lamppost, bible, cardboard, and photographs. Basically they are artifacts for missing persons that were from other cultures, some were lost friends and others devoted their life into the army for us. Cell phones and the internet going down was a technological importance. World Trade Center needs it in order to make business work, interact with others countries, investment, and make online trades. Throughout the story Delillo explains the story by explaining the reader in the present. The writer wants to know what this day has done to us. Smoke was seeping out of the elevator. Karen was saying goodbye to her father in Oregon. When we say a thing is unreal, we mean it is too real. This catastrophic event is hard for
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