The Story From Ground Zero
In his article “The Price We Pay,” Adam Mayblum describes his firsthand experiences during the September eleventh attacks. He wants the American people to understand that the attack is a way for a malicious person to try and tear the American people apart. A terrorist wants to invoke fear and panic. Mayblum wants us to understand that even though the situation is devastating, we as American people should ban together in the face of adversity. In tough situations it is the way we react to the situation that defines us.
In the beginning of the narrative he introduces himself as a worker on the eighty-seventh floor of the north tower. He is able to show his authority on the topic by explaining that he was inside the …show more content…
He talks about wondering if his coworkers had made it out of the building before it collapsed. Mayblum is able to explain the confusion as people received hysterical phone calls from loved ones who had seen the plane crash into the first tower. He also talks about how he could not get a phone call to go through to tell his family that he was on his way out of the building. He wondered if he would ever hear his wife’s voice again. That morning when he left his house he had no way of knowing that his life was hanging in the balance. He didn’t know that his goodbye to his loved ones could have been his last. He makes you look at your own life and appreciate the things you do have. You never know when a goodbye will be your last and he puts that into perspective for his …show more content…
He was just trying to get his experiences down on paper, but because of this his paper is rough around the edges. There are some obvious grammatical errors. Some of his sentences were not complete thoughts. There were a few places where there were only two or three words in a sentence, which is an elementary error in writing. In some places his sentence structuring gave his story a more storybook way of retelling his experiences. Even though his paper had errors, he was still able to convey his message clearly and in great detail.
Mayblum was able to capture the horrors he saw by using expressive language and details that brought his paper to life. As outsiders to the tragedy can’t begin to imagine what it would have been like inside the World Trade Center that September morning. He uses phrases like “nuclear winter fallout” to paint images in your mind of what he was seeing (para 6). His use of details makes an unimaginable situation more real to someone who didn’t experience it firsthand.
Mayblum was successful in how he expressed his horrific experiences in writing, despite his numerous grammatical errors. He was able to tell his story in a way that kept his audience's attention, even though you knew the outcome. He appealed to his audience’s emotions by talking about his family and how he might never see them
In his article “The Price We Pay,” Adam Mayblum describes his firsthand experiences during the September eleventh attacks. He wants the American people to understand that the attack is a way for a malicious person to try and tear the American people apart. A terrorist wants to invoke fear and panic. Mayblum wants us to understand that even though the situation is devastating, we as American people should ban together in the face of adversity. In tough situations it is the way we react to the situation that defines us.
In the beginning of the narrative he introduces himself as a worker on the eighty-seventh floor of the north tower. He is able to show his authority on the topic by explaining that he was inside the …show more content…
He talks about wondering if his coworkers had made it out of the building before it collapsed. Mayblum is able to explain the confusion as people received hysterical phone calls from loved ones who had seen the plane crash into the first tower. He also talks about how he could not get a phone call to go through to tell his family that he was on his way out of the building. He wondered if he would ever hear his wife’s voice again. That morning when he left his house he had no way of knowing that his life was hanging in the balance. He didn’t know that his goodbye to his loved ones could have been his last. He makes you look at your own life and appreciate the things you do have. You never know when a goodbye will be your last and he puts that into perspective for his …show more content…
He was just trying to get his experiences down on paper, but because of this his paper is rough around the edges. There are some obvious grammatical errors. Some of his sentences were not complete thoughts. There were a few places where there were only two or three words in a sentence, which is an elementary error in writing. In some places his sentence structuring gave his story a more storybook way of retelling his experiences. Even though his paper had errors, he was still able to convey his message clearly and in great detail.
Mayblum was able to capture the horrors he saw by using expressive language and details that brought his paper to life. As outsiders to the tragedy can’t begin to imagine what it would have been like inside the World Trade Center that September morning. He uses phrases like “nuclear winter fallout” to paint images in your mind of what he was seeing (para 6). His use of details makes an unimaginable situation more real to someone who didn’t experience it firsthand.
Mayblum was successful in how he expressed his horrific experiences in writing, despite his numerous grammatical errors. He was able to tell his story in a way that kept his audience's attention, even though you knew the outcome. He appealed to his audience’s emotions by talking about his family and how he might never see them