"The Things They Left Behind" Part 1 (1-31)

E. I think Scott is suffering from something like post traumatic disorder after 9/11. This is very understandable because 9/11 was traumatic to all of us but being in it must make the trauma after much worse. He probably feels very confused as to how he is still alive but everyone he worked with had died.
C. What kind of job is Scott working? He is doing research of some sort. It clearly pays enough because he has enough money for an apartment and four $800 dollar psychiatrist sessions. It mentions that he is doing work for someone on the topic of Polaroid cameras. He is researching the history of them and compiling it in 40 pages. That’s a lot of pages on the history of Polaroid cameras! Also, why is he using zip disks? Those things are really outdated. Even though the story takes place in 2002 I think there were better options of storing data by then like CDs and an actual hard drive. Besides the zip drives only held a miniscule amount of data. Maybe this is all just before my time… I don’t know but the bottom line is that there are better alternatives.
A. The beginning stories of this book were easy to relate to as the adrenaline rush that you get as you are about to be caught doing something wrong. Not necessarily the same exact situation he described which was a bit too descriptive in my opinion. (the part about the pictures and his sister’s underwear on his bed).