Death, devastation, an end to happiness - any of these can be used to describe either Finny's fall, or the fall of the World Trade Center. Finny was a prospering youth, full of life and at the top of his game, whose life was forever changed by a single accident. In the same way, America was a prospering nation on the brink of innovation, until a fateful crash distilled fear and changed the attitude of …showed first 75 words of 1850 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1850 total…to a time that has forebodings of war and a feeling of unrest. They also show that the hatred felt toward a person or group, will only have an unthinkable result in the end. It is the protagonist that initiates, and carries out, the event that will lead to the eventual death that occurs in each case. As Gene would put it, "Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence."