Gopali Pomal
Pomal I really like how to view things keenly. It requires great concentration from the side of the readers to have a mental visualization of how Soho looks like. You talked about how the apartments at Soho are clustered yet people still felt lonely. I cannot understand, however, why people in such a busy town with many apartments and people should feel lonely.
Smith is a curious person. He tries to find the meaning in everything including in the billboard ads. I believe that not everyone could have understood the message Smith was passing when he said that he looked at that wall many times than the sky or the World Trade Center. It is good you noted that he was trying to find a meaning in an advert, which we do every day, thanks the eye-catching billboards all over the town.
Jessica Gutierrez
Jessica, you look undecided. The main reason why you cannot choose from two pictures is because both seems to be depicting the same message and hence can be used interchangeably. I agree with you when you say that both the pictures can be used interchangeably but not when you said that you cannot choose from the two. The picture showing the crowded Soho streets is a real picture of what we have in our today’s streets. People are moving to towns in a high number leaving the villages with no one to attend to the elderly. People seem to be ever busy. Ironically, all these people seem to be lonely. I believe that, if I were you, I could have an easy choice. The Soho picture shows reality more than one on the pursuit of happiness, should have come as a second choice.
