Predictive Questions:
1) Is a human life really worth more than others? Are they worth anything at all?
* I believe that human life is what is and that life is given to us naturally and not by paying taxes or by working a certain job. This brings me to the point that Life is not worth anything except of what you yourself make of it.
2) What Is the fundamental purpose of this text to the Audience?
* The Purpose is to emotionally appeal to the audience to make them ponder about how their life really is and just to pay more attention to the life around them.
3) Does the Emotion of the Insurance agents make an impact in who ever is reading this text?
* It does play an important impact because this person could have been a heartless insurance agent straight from the heart of the devil that does not pay attention the worth of a human being.
Key Concepts:
* Agony *Questioning Life
* Personal Conflict * Morals
* Death * Reckoning
* Human Worth * Purpose
Scanning the Text :
* An insurance Agent was to compensate the people who had died during the 9/11 terrorist attack in our country. He was to put a worth of certain amoutn of money on each victim that had parished, but the conflict was that he was to compensate some people more than others simply because of their jobs and their social status in the world.
Vocabulary:
* Incur
* Fringe Benefits
*tort
*balt
* Indignant
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