Colson White head and John Lewis showed different attitudes toward each of their communities. In the article “The Way We Live Now” By Colson Whitehead, he talks about how life has changed after experiencing 9/11. The tone he uses throughout this article is calmed and kind of intense. He states that people should be more aware of what surrounds them, and havae to appreciate what they have in the city, because just like how it happened back in septermber 11, 20011, it can be gone in seconds. He uses pathos to appeal the emtions of the reader when he states “Go back to your old haunts in your old neighborhoods and what do you find: they remain adn have disappeared…You swallow hard when you discover the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy”, Whitehead evokes the reader’s emotions because this puts the reader in a potition which makes them think about al the things that once were there but now are gone. Things that maybe were there during their childhood, now will only be in their memories. As for John Lewis article “ Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” He talks about how a current generation movement relate with a movement from hs generation. His tone and attitude towards this topic is motivating and calmed. When he states “Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I called good trouble, necessary trouble” He is trying to emphasize the idea that people have the strength to be able to overcome any kind of unfairness and discrimination situation, by saying this he is also appealing to the emotion of the readers,this makes the readers realize that together people arae able to fight for their beliefs and for justsice for everyone that isn’t being treated as they should. These two authors spoke differently about their crisis, they both had different ways of talking about their experiences, however both of them ended up somehow giving the reader hope and motivation. By the end of the piece, Lewis talked about how when people get united to achieve a common goal, will end up achieving change. On the other hand, Whitehead mentions that the city in which we live now will never be the same again.

The overlapping themes between these articles would be how both of thwm went through crisis, awful times that are now considered past. From Whitehead’s article the message that I took away is that people should appreciate what we have in our neighborhoods and cities, because they can be gone in the span of seconds. And from Lewis’ article I learned that when people join forces they can be unstoppable, with the same goal in mind people would fight until a change is achieved.

To me, Whitehead’s article is more relatable because even though I have only lived here in NYC for five years, I can say that this city hs been different each year, I have moved between different neighborhoods and everytime I go back to any of my old neighborhoods I notice all the changes, places I used to enjoy spending time in, are not there anymore. Things or places that helped me remember the path from my school to my house, arae not there anymore. Going back to the first neighborhood I lived in when I came to New York, can be very emotional for me, it brings back many memories from all the “first times” in this city, “My first time going to school here”, “The first time I went out with my new friends”,”My first time going out by myself”, “My first time walking to school”, so seeing things changed in that neighborhood makes it seem like that is not the same place again.