Analyzing In The Wake Of 9/11

On September 11th, 2001 as I looked up at the television set broadcasting the collapse of the World Trade Center I was filled with confusion. As I sat in my English class all eyes were glued to the television, as we watched replays of the planes crashing and the buildings imploding. We had been attacked. My first reaction was of disbelief, no way did terrorists destroy the World Trade Center and attack the Pentagon it just wasn’t feasible. Two of the proudest symbols of our might and way life had been attacked and destroyed. In their book “In The Wake Of 9/11 The Psychology of Terror” Pyszczynski, Solomon, and Greenberg claim that the events of September 11th “hit us with a one-two punch of mortality salience coupled with a major attack on our cultural anxiety buffer” (Pyszczynski 93). This is a very strong argument because the claim is clear, the grounds are excellent, and the conditions of rebuttal are well developed.
Pyszczynski et al’s argument is strong bec...