Underground

From what I read in class and what we have discussed, the book’s structure is like a documentary. It tells you events, and the author makes in each chapter a new victim that had suffered from the attack. Also each chapter gives you more information to put the pieces together. From what I see, each victim is scared to talk, they have fear to say something and then regret it. Therefore, the author makes a summary in the beginning of the book, explaining that for each person, some of their interviews had to be done again, there were always second thoughts on people who had said something and then at the end they wanted to exclude information. If the victims were scared, what makes you think that when the terrorists were being interviewed, they could have been playing and making it like a plan. Or maybe to talk but not to tell the truth. Why believe everything that they say?. I would be scared if I had to interview the terrorists, you never know what they are capable of doing.

The subtitle of  “The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche” gives me an idea that is not the first attack Japanese community had been impacted from. It gives me an idea that there's more to it, the only there's lack of information. People in Japan are not very aware of what they have to deal with in the streets everyday. Every time you go out, you make sure nothing crazy is happening, however people aren’t very concerned, they only care about the daily routine, I can tell from the reaction of some people that were being interviewed. Some of them, kept their day going, found things strange in the train, but decided to continue even though they felt not good, or they couldn’t see clearly. Until they were able to see the news and realize that something bad had happened and that there’s was needed to be checked for those who were victims in the attacks and thought that nothing had happened. Also why depend on what the new are saying all the time? Why not take the initiative to make your own judgement?