Connecting Historic Documents to Pictures from September 11th, 2001

"These are the times that try men's souls" (51).

I paired this photograph and quote together, because to me this photograph shows that in times of trouble and attacks when people know they will die, they become completely different people and do things that they never thought they would do before. In this picture the people are falling from the building, because they would rather die by falling than by burning to death. As the quote also says "try men's souls" which is saying these hard times are testing how far each person would go, as in how they would die, and what they would do in order to stay alive or die. To see the words of 1776 being paired with this image from 2001, shows to me that history does repeat itself. In every tough and historic situation, people are always challenged in their survival, and depending on the type of person, they will do whatever it takes to stay alive or the opposite. The connections that I see are that all the people in this photograph are jumping to their death, and that is what is testing and "trying" their souls.