In this story the most prominent symbol is that of the original World Trade Center towers and in particular how their destruction mimicked the struggle and turmoil that the teenage boys in the tale were going through. The towers were used as a constant backdrop to the boys lives and one which shaped their experience.
This story connected on a personal level because being from New Jersey this event happened within sight from where I lived and I can vividly remember this day. I can remember coming home from school to hear that the towers had fallen and then in school all of the families who had lost relatives in the towers. As a result, this story held more personal interest than the other works that we have read for class.
In order to adapt this story to a photographic scene I would play up the film aspects of the story that create a good film still style scene, like the part when the group of boys is walking around the closed amusement park. This particular part lends itself quite well to a visual adaptation.
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