further explination of "One Day, Now Broken In Two"

The artice written by Anna Quindian "One Day, Now Broken In Two" was written a little less than a year after 9/11.  This was a time still filled with complicated issues we Americans have never really had to think about before.  The prospect of people hating us and wanting to kill us, the anthrax scares, asking the question of how safe are we?  But on the other hand this was a year after 9-11 and as she points out in her article "...there were babies to be fed, dogs to be walked, jobs  to be done."  In her veiew many people were in a sort of "self-hypnosis" where in they belived that all was the same.  This article is a way of trying to get people to remember that even though life may go on everything is a little different, and to get people talking about how to live in this new world.

She does this by reminding us that 9/11 is more than just an isolated event. It was the result of plannig of a clash of cultures.  She talks of people asking "Why do they hate us?".  This was a very new idea for many of us.  That people in the world actually hate us.  In looking at that question or idea she asks us ":did we like ourselves " This use of the questions is really trying to get the reader to think about what we really think about what our culture looked like.

Once she has us look at the question of "Is everything back to normal" a question she was asked while in another country.  Her answer simple and i feel the heart of the article; "I said yes. And no."  This was true for anybody who was not directly effected by what had happened.  Your daily life remained mostly the same.  We went to work school, work whatever, but especially in the year that followed we always had that idea that something could happen anytime in the back of our minds. This was a completely new idea.  No one at the time could really imagine something like that happening but now it had and what could happen next?  Or the sadness that something like this had happened may have affected some more than the constant threat of terror.  This was new and needed to be discussed.