All We Have Left

2001 ARIA-CHAPTER 16

Reading Check

1. “Nothing” and “Terrorists go home” (2016 Jesse)

2. A young Muslim woman Alia created for her comic books (Chapter 3)

2. A photo album about Travis (Chapter 10)

3. Adam (Chapter 10)

Short Answer

1. Alia remembers being in the World Trade Center on 9/11. She remembers the fear, smoke, Travis helping her, choosing to use her shirt instead of her scarf to protect herself. (2001 Alia)

2. Dawn on 9/11 is when Alia prayed on the roof of her building and decided to wear her hijab moving forward. (Chapter 1)

3. Alia and Jesse are separated by time, but as each tells her story, they are similar ages. They also both develop a new relationship with someone of another religion and experience conflicts with their parents. Travis also unites them. (Chapter 16: 2001 Aria)

4. Alia went to the World Trade Center to find her father and talk with him, hoping to convince him to sign her permission slip for an art program. (Chapter 16: 2001 Aria)

CHAPTERS 17-32

Reading Check

1. The elevator freefalls until the emergency break starts working. (Chapter 17)

2. After spray painting the side of the building, Jesse is sentenced to do community service at the center. (Chapter 18)

2. Jesse and Travis’s brother (Chapter 20)

3. Alia should have been at school, and Travis should have been at his grandfather’s memorial. (Chapter 23)

Short Answer

1. The three are family; Yalda is Sabeen and Adam’s mom. Jesse met Adam rock climbing. She saw students bullying Sabeen. Yalda supervises Jesse at the Islam Peace Center, which is where Jesse encounters Sabeen and Adam again. (Chapter 18)

2. Jesse tells her mom she does not want to leave and move with her; she is distant from her father but wants to stay in the home she knows. Her mom leaving prompts Jesse to realize more clearly the rifts in her family and begin investigating her brother’s death in earnest, hoping answers can help them heal. (Chapter 20)

3. Jesse finds an old unplugged answering machine with a broken message from her brother Travis. It reveals that he called the day he died, and that he was with Alia. This shows that her family is holding onto pieces of Travis in different ways. (Chapters 24-28)

4. Travis goes back to get something he dropped. We realize later it is his grandfather’s ashes. His actions put him in danger and reveal what he dropped was precious to him. (Chapter 27)

5. Julia is a young woman Travis and Alia meet as they all try to escape from the towers on 9/11. They help Julia, carrying her purse and supporting her physically because she has a heart condition and cannot escape on her own. (Chapters 29-31)

CHAPTERS 33-46

Reading Check

1. In her mother’s dresser (Chapter 36)

2. He was Travis’ friend. (Chapter 40)

3. Gunk Mountains, where she has climbed in the past (Chapter 46)

Short Answer

1. Hank does not want to dredge up everything about Travis. He recounts how much pain it has caused his family, the resulting anger and grief, and wants to avoid what happened. (Chapter 34)

2. Alia and Travis tell a firefighter running up the stairs about Julia’s heart condition, and the first responders rush her out of the building and get her medical help. (Chapters 33-38)

3. Alia talks with a friend of her father’s, who tells her that her father was in the office when the plane hit the building. Fearing for her dad’s safety, Alia rushes upstairs to find him. (Chapters 39-43)

4. Jesse’s father considers all Muslims terrorists and blames them for his son’s death. He is heard yelling multiple times and judges Adam immediately, even though Adam was a toddler at the time of the attacks. (Chapters 33-46)

CHAPTERS 47-60

Reading Check

1. In with her mom (Chapter 48)

2. A memorial service for Travis on 9/11 (Chapter 48)

3. In the 9/11 Memorial Museum listed as a missing person (Chapter 54)

4. They hear increased urgency as people flee and the same sounds that they heard when the other tower collapsed. (Chapter 55)

5. Hope (Chapter 59)

Short Answer

1. Alia created Lia as a heroine for her comic books. She views Lia’s strength and imagines what Lia would do in various situations. Alia starts to realize her own strength as the gravity of the situation in the World Trade Center becomes more obvious. (Chapters 47-60)

2. Alia realizes Travis needs help breathing, more help than his shirt can provide. She gives him her scarf even though it is a huge gesture, revealing she cares a great deal about him. (Chapter 53)

3. Jesse continues researching Alia, trying to discover what happened to her. She finds information about her online. She tells Adam what she uncovered, and he elicits his father’s help, who finds Alia. Alia says she wants to meet Jesse. (Chapters 57-58)

4. Alia remembers wind tearing her away from Travis and then waking up on a pile of rubble, suggesting somehow the collapse caused powerful wind to pull her outside. (Chapter 59)