"It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts" (34).
My thinking behind the pairing of this quote from 1776 and the image from 2001 is that they connect highly to one another. To see the words of 1776 being paired with an image from 2001 tells me that history does repeat itself if it is not learned, and if people don't try to stop bad things from happening. In 1776, many devastation's have also occurred, and people reacted the same way to them as they reacted in 2001, to the September 11 attacks. The connections that I see is that the woman in the picture is shutting her eyes, and is terrified from what has happened. They are trying to not accept the painful truth of the terrorist attack, but in their hearts they know that they need to accept what has happened.
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