The sketches of 9/11 victims in "portraits of grief": a. recount the events of the attack in gruesome detail. b. readers distance themselves from the attack. c. give the victims a voice and readers relate. d. provide journalists a carefree opportunity to write.

C.give the victims a voice and help readers relate.

Explanation:

The attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of four terrorist attacks committed on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in the United States. They were committed by 19 members of the al Qaeda jihadist network, through the hijacking of commercial aircraft to be hit against various targets, causing the death of 3,016 people and leaving more than 6,000 injured, as well as the destruction in New York of all the complex of World Trade Center buildings (including the Twin Towers) and serious damage to the Pentagon building (headquarters of the Department of Defense of the United States, in the state of Virginia), an episode that would precede the war in Afghanistan and adoption by the American Government and its allies of the policy called "war on terrorism".