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Comparing in the Penal Colonny to the Events of 9/11
English Project – In the Penal Colony
This project is a comparison to In the Penal Colony by Frank Kafka. I have here several excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles which are generally about terrorism and torture. The device that was used in In the Penal Colony was a pointless device. There was no lesson to be learned and no benefit from it to anyone. It served no purpose. Likewise terrorism is a form of pointless torture. There is no point made, no benefit, and no lesson that could possibly be learned through acts of terror. This comparison shows that modern terrorism and torture is just as pointless as the sentence writer in the story.
Torture, like terrorism, is an act of barbarism
ALLEN S. KELLER, M.D.
New York, March 10, 2003
The writer is director, Bellevue/N.Y.U. Program for Survivors of Torture.
One of the most outstanding examples of terror is of course September 11th. The horror of the attacks on September 11th was the fact that so many lives, so much money, so much hard work and effort, so many emotions, so much creativity, so much of everything was destroyed. It was an act of pure destruction. There was no logical reason that could make the events of September 11th excusable or acceptable. It was
Approximate Word count = 880
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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