The central idea of the text is decision making during evacuation. During horrific events, people seem to have different decision making skills, making it hard to process what's going on in their surroundings. "For one thing, people have different levels of decision-making skills, with some inevitably behaving more rationally than others." While the emergency evacuation is taking place, people get worried and do almost anything just to be safe and out of harms way. Since "Simplexity" was written based on 9/11, the people that were in that situation of the building crashing and them trying to evacuate to survive in a chaotic way and not an orderly fashion wouldn't be able to escape in peace or in one order. All the people think about is getting out instead of their safety. 

Thanksgiving 
The Halloween pumpkins are gone,
And the leaves have all fallen to ground.
Air windy and cold,
Knowing Thanksgiving will be around soon .

Thoughts of loved ones all feasting together,
Pleasant pictures from past times appear
To dwell in each heart and each mind--
Then Thanksgiving is finally here!

The kitchen has scrumptious aromas,
The dining room looks oh, so devine,
Turkeys, and stuffing all dressed up
And now we are ready to dine!

First the family sits around at the table
Now the prayer for the meal to be blessed,
Then we stuff our faces in good galore, And laugh all night as we feste.

In English 10, the most salient thing I have learned since August was the knowledge of analyzing text and finding my support through textual evidence. This knowledge will help me succeed in life by giving me the skill of understanding the text better, reading in between the lines and clearly understand the claim of the text.