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While perusing the text, I found the following quote which I could relate New York City to the rest of the world:

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In one of the chapters of the book:

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“ Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of.”

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Now, here is the issue which we can all relate to: terrorism. As we know that 9-11 represented infamousin our history. At the time, being a fifth grader in a Queens elementary school, I was naive, and therefore had no idea of what initially went on. I was frightened by the idea of fire anyway, and was more even more fearful when my mom dropped by to pick us up. I am sure we all were scared at that point, but eventually, we seemed to recover pretty well, and our lives got better, before getting worse, again.

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Last week, we faced a near recreation of 9-11. We evidenced one of the biggest, and coordinated attacks against Mumbai hotels. Here at least 200 people died. However, this was the least of our worries. We are worried that all terrorist, although resentful of western culture, are finding ways to get some of the best technology, that apparantly even police seem to lack.

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There is also another problem which nearly every city faces, and NYC is no exception. This is how to identify terrorists. While we usually associate those of the middle eastern origin to be most likely terrorists, the simple fact is that anyone can be a terrorist. Take an American from California, for example. He had converted to Islam, and he fled after, according to him, was "being tortured for his beliefs." He became a terrorist, and probably now hiding in the lawless, northwestern Pakisan. Other extremist organizations of certain ethnicities also existing, which include those of many races and cultures.

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The entire world is faced with challenge of identifying the "true terrorists." Some of them are truly innocent, while others are heartless monsters. How will we and, in fact, react to this entire challenge? The answer is, unfortunately, beyond the means we have at this point.

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-Nihir S.

Posted by nihir11373 on December 5, 2008
Tags: Breakfast At Tiffany's

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profjudell on whole page :

This is a powerful response, although I’m not sure you are placing the original quote in the proper context. Possibly I’m wrong. Are you stating that under the right circumstances Holly Golightly might have become an Islamic terrorist?

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December 8, 2008 1:51 am
nihir11373 on whole page :

Thank you for your response. I realize the need for clarification here. I think that I wanted to point out that innocent looking people sometimes have their own hidden agendas. Holly seemed suspicious to me because despite her lack of family, she still maintained her youthfullness. Without some feeling of catharsis, I feel that its difficult for a person to ever be him or herself again. We observe evidence for questioning her character because she claimed to have an uncle, despite not having one, just to get money. Therefore, Holly’s doubtable innocent personality leads to some evidence of the possibility of her as a troublemaker, but not necessarily a terrorist. I tried to connect this to our society because we don’t know who are troublemakers–especially terrorists, should there be any, and who aren’t, just like at first glance, we see Holly as representing the youth, while raising many question marks on her character.

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December 8, 2008 5:44 am
srahman90 on whole page :

the exact quote occurs when Holly and the narrator talk about the “mean reds” and the narrator connects it (mean reds) to the blues
“No the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweet like hell, but you don’t know what it is”

i think this is the quote Nihir is referring to
if this was the quote i think u totally took it out of context through what u said above (about how messed up the world is) is true and does make u think about the world we are living in today

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December 10, 2008 4:05 am

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