In The Shadow of No Towers about the Author

The author of this book lived through 9/11 in a different manner than what I experienced it in. he was actually in New York when the planes hit. Through out the graphic novel There were many changing perspectives and I was very confused by this at first as I could not see how he could know what was happening in so many places at once but as the novel progressed I understood where he was coming from. When people go through a traumatic event they usually tend to remember every deatil about every event that occured during that time, where they were, what they were doing, weather, clothings, sentences down to pauses that people might have said. I remember coming out of my room at 6:15 in the morning before I was to get ready for school and hearing the distraught tone of my mom's voice as she told me that a plane had just hit the world trade tower, I watched it on Tv and listened to the reports on the radio as I rode the bus to school. It had not really occured to me the significance of the event until we all got to school. We didn't do anyting that day except watch the news and discuss what was going on. when you are fed all that information after the fact what you actually saw and what you remember may be something different. For instance, I cannot accurately remember if I saw the second plane hit the tower or if I remember it because I've seen it so many times on videos that are on the internet or some of the replays that the tvs were playing at the time. I think that when i began to understand this is when I got into the book, maybe the author is going through the same thing, maybe what he thinks saw was something his mind conjured up and he is trying to decipher what is actually remembered. But overall I'm glad we had to get through this novel, it was a growing experience for me. Even though I didn't like it i would still recomend it.