"Some things are beyond words. Beyond comprehension. Beyond forgiveness.”
Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man #36 opens on a two-page spread with Spider-Man at ground zero shortly after the towers collapsed. Examine the comic panels linked here and then write down responses to the following questions (or work in pairs) and then discuss as a class.
1) Look at the visual evidence and describe how Spider-Man is feeling — what does he look like? How does his reaction mirror that of how you think many Americans felt?
2) Analyze his words. What do they mean? Do you feel like something like this attack is beyond comprehension now?
3) Why can he not forgive? Should he? What do you think he will do?
4) What did America do? What would you do?
5) We see parts of NYC and Ground Zero – GPS coordinates are even given. Use Google Earth and look up these coordinates – what is there now?
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