Those men who survived - those eager to
obey, eager to live for one another, since they
had nothing else to vindicate them – those
men could neither carry on, nor preserve
what they had received. Thus did all thought,
all science, all wisdom perish on earth. Thus
did men - men with nothing to offer save
their great numbers – lose the steel towers,
the flying ships, the power wires, all the
things they had not created and could never
keep. Perhaps, later, some men had been
born with the mind and the courage to
recover these things which were lost; perhaps
these men came before the Councils of
Scholars Thou woro answorod as I have boon
What imagery is used in this passage?
the crumbling of a great society

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance