“HELP HIM UP!”: A WITNESS’S ACCOUNT OF PANIC ON A SUBWAY PLATFORM
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“Help Him Up!”: A Witness’s Account of Panic on a Subway Platform written by Michael Wilson describes his personal account of a terrifying incident that took place at the Second Avenue subway station in Manhattan, and the person who was willing to help
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In the article “Help Him Up!”: A Witness’s Account of Panic on a Subway Platform, by Michael Wilson, a reporter for The New York Times, describes his personal account of a terrifying incident that took place in the Second Avenue subway station in Manhattan, and how the New Yorkers who were ready to assist. It narrates the incident about a homeless man who fallen in the platform and how one person name David Capuzzo, coming from his job of waiting tables at a Mexican restaurant name Rosie’s, had selflessly taken extraordinary action to save him because he felt responsible. Here the author It emphasises his belief that people who do heroic things are not motivated by pride but they think whatever they do is because they feel responsible and wanted to do it such as saving a person from an accident. Not only that when Mr.Capuzzo called up his mother and girlfriend to say about what happened, while they were worried, Mr.Capuzzo even then was only thinking about the man andhoped that he was okay. The story also tells about I how the people in the subway station did not do enough to help and contrast Mr. Capuzzo’s courage with the other people’s fear. While people were very curious about the way the old frail man in the subway station looked, when he fell on the tracks nobody cared enough to help him