Colum Mccann's Let The Great World Spin

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The book, “Let the Great World Spin”, written by Colum McCann sets place in New York in a post Vietnam/ pre-9/11 era and later on a post 9/11 era. McCann describes two different eras, one post and one pre 9/11 where a wire walking event connects all the characters and makes the story cohesive. This book is provoking in a way that it challenges how the class structure and different ethnic and social groups are really represented within society. It depicts how society’s stories intertwine and can also serve as a metaphor for showing how the just like the wire walking connected all the characters within the text, the 9/11 tragedy caused society to come together and unite in the midst of a terrorist attack. Many different groups are represented in this story such as whites, prostitutes and to a lesser extent Blacks and Mexicans. Although this story portrays the perspectives and stories of many different groups, some are marginalized, excluded or silenced. Some…show more content…
The Muslim perspective was excluded in order for the reader to form their own interpretation of how they would view the situation. Their exclusion within the text causes a Muslims’ story to be left out and information to be missing in order to get a balanced perception of the 9/11 tragedy. A Muslim’s story would have provided the reader with an alternating perspective and would have made 9/11 even more central to the story. The different perspective would have added more history as to why 9/11 was bound to occur or had occurred in the modern era. It would have also placed the story as more diverse so that more of the audience would be able to connect to the characters and events. Although Muslims’ stories were excluded, their inclusion in the text would have made the story biased towards the western
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