Located in downtown Manhattan, the World Trade Center was an iconic symbol of human imagination and will. The twin towers stood at 110 stories, and accomodated up to 50,000 workers and around 200,000 visitors daily in its 10 million square foot space. The Center was the hub of the bustling Financial District, and it became a top tourist attraction, as it represented New York City's and America's devotion to progress and innovations of the future. The World Trade Center became a target of a massive terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives that day. The towers were also destroyed in the attack.

In Park's Re-Jane, Jane reveals that she was due for an interview at the World Trade Center by stating, " As I rummaged through the banana box on the floor-our version of accounts-payable/accounts-recieveable department- I thought of my interview at Lowood on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center. My cubicle would have had walls of sleek frosted glass, overlooking an office that overlooked the river."(p. 7, Park). This New York 2001 set work not only details the major life changes that affect Jane, but it also indirectly parallels the 'life' of the World Trade Center, as it once stood when Jane was anticipating an interview there to the day after the tragic event on page 133, where Jane has changes setting to her mother's homeland in South Korea. Amongst Jane's major move to South Korea to be at her grandfather's funeral, another albeit, more drastic end took place just the day before she landed in South Korea, the twin towers were destroyed by terrorists. The purpose of these parallels represents a massive shift in perception in what matters the most in one's life. As the general public reacts and re-evaluates what matters the most to them in their lives, Jane also is going to re-evaluate what matters most to her in her own life in the work.

Bibliography

Park, Patricia. Re Jane. Penguin Books, 2015.

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