Towers Falling

From the award-winning writer Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel 15 years after the 9/11 attack

Deja will be confused when her fifth grade teacher implies that a family course and a series of courses on the community will eventually have big answers in the two towers, Deja will be visible outside the classroom window. She started a journey of exploration.

Jewell Parker Rhodes' TOWERS FALLING not only recalls the historical tragic story of 9/11 but also how it affects the US and its next generation citizens. This story is for Deja of the fifth grade of elementary school to learn the 9/11 event. This is an event I do not mind because everything happened before I was born. Deja is a strong girl whose family live in a homeless shelter. When she did not attend school, she was looking after her brother and sister, her mother was working, so her pop music is always sick and strangely from her family I was kept away. It all frustrated Deja, she was angry most of the time, whether she was pop music or life.

TOWERS FALLING started by letting Deja recognize friendship. I noticed that she belonged to different groups of people with strong connections. Deja belongs to family circle, where a group of friends leads to all the different rings to which she belongs. For everyone living in the United States there is another ring to appeal to all of us. Throughout the book, the charts in these circles show that we all are connected. This gave a deeper understanding of Deja's event. Because, as a US citizen, it showed that the 9/11 incident occurred to all of us. Since Deja knew that 9/11 had affected her related people including her friends and family, she passed the association.

Rhodes uses more than just a word to tell these different stories. TOWERS FALLING has some beauty through Deja's Circle Map, School Project, Essay, and Friend's Ben's picture but usually it has nothing to do with the tragic story, but the heritage and the American past, It is associated with emotional and visual aspects. Let's connect with our country. Make sure TOWERS FALLING appeals to readers, emotionally pull past into the present, they will definitely be affected by Rhodes discourse