In the beginning of the story, Petit is seen standing on top of the World Trade centers. People of all backgrounds are gathered to witness what he will do. Some even yell “Do it.” Everyone is wondering what he will do. I think this scene is a testament to how people are brought together, especially in New York. New York has the ability to bring together people of all kinds of ethnicities, races, ages, gender, etc. Even the comments at Petit are New-York-ish. I can imagine someone in the crowd telling him to jump and laughing about, and other people laughing with him. I read that part with horror. We are then taken from Dublin to New York, the Bronx to be exact.
Something that interesting to me while reading is that this scenery is not the typical scene we see of NYC in movies, or TV. I remember the movie, Center Stage, about ballerinas training in Amerian Ballet theater. They glamorized New York so much, that I hoped for that too. This story, however is the Blood, Bones, and Butter that we dont want to see. These are the serious issues that happen in NYC that movies typically dont highlight. This book opens our eyes to that. I think Carian is most intriguing to me because he states that this America is not what he expected which I understand. Carrigan is so complicated and it is a challenge to understand him.