Thesis For The 102 Minutes

The book 102 Minutes is a story of the fight to survive. Set inside the twin towers, authors Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn tell the haunting stories of both victims and survivors of the terrorist attack known as 9/11. Describing the morning before the attack, along with the lives of the people in the twin towers, creates an emotion connection between audiences and the text. This emotional connection evokes emotions of pity for the people impacted by this tragic event. By the biographers using the rhetorical device of pathos, an empathetic relationship is formed between audiences and the individuals in the passage, which sparks feelings of anxiety to see if certain people survived the attack, which opens the minds of the audience to other information and opinions that the composers of the text may present throughout the text. The book opens with the story of fifty-one-year-old Dianne DeFontes, as a receptionist for a law firm, her morning is similar to many other American citizens. The writers use specific details like the fact that she had yogurt and

Many people on the upper floors of the tower we doomed simply because of the building’s design. The biographers take incredible time and energy to describe the towers “fatal” flaws. This extensive account of the buildings places the blame of the deaths on the structural flaws and the people who carried out the attack. Dwyer and Flynn use this realization to create a pitiful tone. Readers respond to this tone by feeling pity for the sufferers. These feelings are a key moment of persuasion for the authors because when they push blame on the engineers of the towers, readers are more acceptable of the writers beliefs on the subject. This method of persuasion can be seen in the part of the text where the writers insert the philippic piece pushing blame onto the builders and designers of the