For this post I have decided to analyze the data of Jaylecia Lee Davila in her interview with Christine Oania. My main focus in coding this interview is centered around the attitudes towards the groups associated with the attacks, and the difference in emotions then and now.
Coding for the data is as follows:
Personal Fact - any data that follows the interviewees own life outside of the events of September 11th, 2001 (ex/ age, residence, etc)
Event Fact - any data that centers around happenings of the day, minus any speculation or emotional reaction to said events (ex/ where the interviewee was on 9/11, etc)
Initial Emotional Response - any emotional response to the events of September 11th, 2001 that occurred in the midst of the crisis (ex/ crying, getting angry, feeling confused, etc)
Later Emotional Response - any emotional response to the events of September 11th, 2001 that have been formed or nurtured due to the passing of time
Later Critical Response - any critical, non-emotional, thoughts that have arisen since the events of September 11th, 2001 in regards to how the event was handled, how those held responsible were treated, etc.
[Note: Questions asked by Jaylecia have been placed in bold text to help separate the questions from the replies.]
Where were you born / Where'd you grow up?
Born in Newark and grew up in Maplewood NJ.
How old were you when 9/11 happened? /Where where you?
Nine years old when 9/11 happened and attending Tusken Elementary.
Describe the events of the day to the best of you ability.
School had been dimissed without an anouncement of what happened. Her dad picked her up and tried to explain to her what happened but she didn't understand. When she got home she turned on the t.v. and every channel was the news accept for the food network. She remembered crying as she heard the news stories of the victims that died so she watched the food network to avoid it. He parents were on a highway or bridge that has a clear view of the towers when the attack happened. and hit a wall of traffic because cars had stoped and gotten out of their cars to watch. they turned around and went back to pick her up at school.
How did you feel about the event?
Though she didn't have a clear understanding of what happened she knew that people had died and that made her sad.
Did you know anyone that was personally involved?
There were people in her grade who's parents went to NY to volunteer to clean the rubble.
How did yo feel about the events that happened?
After the news talked alot aobut Al Qeada, Osama Bin Ladin and the Talaban. Her parents became paranoid after the attack. They put up a security gate and installed an alarm system in their home.
How do your feelings now differ from your feelings then?
She still feels sad about the victims and about the people that were up Muslim faith, middle eastern decent and Sikh who faced discrimination after the attacks.
Through the data presented in this interview it can be assessed that Christine, like a vast majority of Americans, felt quite emotional about the events of September 11th, 2001. Since she was of a very young age at the time, many of her emotional responses were born of the reactions that adults had (her parents) as well as the images presented on television of the tragedy.
It can be inferred through the response about her parents becoming paranoid due to the media focusing on Al Qaeda that her family shared in the growing stigma surrounding Muslims in the years following 9/11. This is why I coded the final response in two separate categories.
First, the response that Christine still feels sad about the victims of 9/11 to this day is an emotional response left over from the frightening and sad events of September 11th. Second, her sorrow over the way Muslims and Middle Easterners were profiled and mistreated in the wake of the attacks is built from a critical regret of the actions that Americans took against such groups.
In conclusion I would say that the emotional response to September 11th, specifically in regards to this interview, shows that the attacks affected all Americans regardless of age and caused, in many cases, emotional responses that were later changed due to the passing of time and critical thought over the topic. In this case, the interviewee was emotional, and witnessed her family's response to the emotions by growing more paranoid over what the media was putting out there. However, the interviewee, like many Americans, saw the error in this method of thinking and felt regret and sorrow over how certain groups (i.e. individuals of Islamic faith) were treated.
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