Last New Orleans Reading

Part two was all about what was going on in New Orleans after the disaster. Piazza walks us through mental images of the physical images he witnessed. I noticed how Piazza used more dramatic comparisons than in the first section of the book. For example, right on the first page of the second part he was talking about how he was afarid to see what the city looked like, he says, "I felt dread, as if I were about to enter a morgue to view the body of my best friend." (113) I knew Tom Piazza would be someone wanting to go back to New Orleans right away but I was surprised by how many other people wanted to as well. Not only were many people willing to go back but people were so generous about giving food and water away to others who need it. Piazza makes me feel for these people and believe that such a horrific disaster happened to so many giving people, "By the time we left, our spiritual gas tank, which had been below empty, had filled just enough to carry us the next leg of the trip, at least. And if that sound and that feeling could be rekindled in the midst of all that chaos, then I knew New Orleans had a chance." (136)