Authors have been expressing their opinions through writing since the beginning of the new nation. Tom Junod, the author of “The Falling Man,” and Michel- Guillaume Jean de the author of “What Is an American” hope to influence the American population with an epidemic of their own beliefs. Their nonfiction articles exemplify that men become something more than what they were when somebody sees hopefulness, beauty, promise during a specific moment. Tom Junod describes “The Falling Man” as “the essential element in the creation of a new flag” and announces the he achieved “geometric balance” while (kind of) voluntarily falling to his death. While “traveling upwards of 150 miles per hour,” a person is expected to flail around as gravity takes
