John Updike The New Yorker Analysis

John Updike's [comment] from The New Yorker focuses on "something great and horrendous" and represents the trauma associated with the 911 attacks. Although the author did not stay at the lower Manhattan at that moment, he expressed a feeling of empathy in Brooklyn heights. He worried and sympathized with the sufferings of people. "We knew we had just witnessed thousands of deaths; we clung to each other as if we ourselves were falling." At that moment, everyone's hearts are connected together to face the confusion together. The human's lives are fragility when people have experienced the war and death. However, they also are fortitude. "We have only the mundane duties of survivors-to pick up the pieces, to bury the dead, to take more precautions,