Year 11 Narrative

“It was like some horror movie because it was dark, and there was lots of smoke, the air wasn't clear, and people were in despair, like people who witnessed it or survived it, you couldn't forget their eyes. It went on for days.” My mother, Svetlana Davis was at her home in Kiev watching TV when the program was suddenly interrupted by breaking news. On TV, she saw the planes crash into the Twin Towers and all the smoke coming from them. “It was live and I saw people jumping out of windows. As the coverage was progressing it was becoming more surreal but yet you come to the realization that it's actually happening, that people are dying, and you just can't help thinking where the world is going, how could something horrible and inhuman like that actually happen.” She couldn’t imagine what people in New York, and everywhere were going through. Soon after the attacks, she had to go to her English classes but didn’t

Like how firefighters died saving people, and how a lot of them died on the spot. It was unbelievable the bravery of the firefighters that died saving people.” Later on in the news she remembers seeing the spot where the Twin Towers had once been covered in a sea of flowers, candles, balloons, and plush toys. After the attacks, a lot of people had turned against Muslims and their religion. “After that attacks, maybe not to the same degree, [as 9-11] were happening here and there, like bombings in Russia by Russian Muslims because they hate Russia, and bombings in London and Barcelona, and recently another one in London. It makes you think there is no safe place in the world.” She hopes that people don’t take their frustrations out on Muslim people because majority of them having nothing to do with terroristic attacks, and that people, especially the younger generations, don’t forget about 9-11. She said she doesn’t know what the world will be like in 5