Ground Zero Analysis The attacks of the World Trade Center in 2001 can be remembered by many who witnessed it as a tragic, heartbreaking experience. Many of us can remember the exact place we were at when the news came out on that September day. Many people want to pay respects to the hundreds lost, and many have including journalist Suzanne Berne. Suzanne wrote an article on her perception of the experience she had. She visited just six months after 9/11, when debris was still taken away yet from the scene. In her description of her experiences she used many rhetorical strategies, a way of conveying to make it feel like one is on the journey with her to see Ground Zero. The site is an eerie place where the bad memories come back but worth
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In Ground Zero, Suzanne Berne uses these three techniques in her own unique way. Again, to pay respects is good ethics to go by, “nothing becomes something more potent”. By using ethos, in this quote Berne shows she is knowledgeable of what happened and the emptiness at the World Trade Center bothers her. Suzanne uses others reactions to apply logic to her writing (Logos) in her quotes “I watched these towers being built. I saw this place when they were there” and “Again and again I hear people say, “it’s unbelievable.”” The first quote was a grandpa telling his grandson remembering when the twin towers weren’t there as Berne describes as a “double negative”, this gives proof others still feel indifferent about the situation. As with the second quote, she shows proof that seeing the site in person was crazy knowing all the images on the news and seeing the aftermath that is still their months afterwards. As for Pathos there is a lot of examples given because of how emotion 9/11 was for the whole country. “I got my ticket for the disaster” is what the author said when she first saw the site at the deli, it was very figurative. This goes back to when she asked a guard direction to Ground Zero and he/she said a variation of that …show more content…
Suzanne being there as they were cleaning up the disaster was a great time to reflect on what happened. Even today with the memorial and museum, the experience of horror that Suzanne describes will never be the same. The author purpose and her rhetorical strategies made this and interesting passage, and also by just knowing the history behind the attacks. She got what she wanted by giving the respect the ones lost deserve. The curiosity given by Berne was entertaining throughout, even knowing it was about a such a bad time in America history. Hopefully in the future there will never be anything like the attacks of the World Trade
In Ground Zero, Suzanne Berne uses these three techniques in her own unique way. Again, to pay respects is good ethics to go by, “nothing becomes something more potent”. By using ethos, in this quote Berne shows she is knowledgeable of what happened and the emptiness at the World Trade Center bothers her. Suzanne uses others reactions to apply logic to her writing (Logos) in her quotes “I watched these towers being built. I saw this place when they were there” and “Again and again I hear people say, “it’s unbelievable.”” The first quote was a grandpa telling his grandson remembering when the twin towers weren’t there as Berne describes as a “double negative”, this gives proof others still feel indifferent about the situation. As with the second quote, she shows proof that seeing the site in person was crazy knowing all the images on the news and seeing the aftermath that is still their months afterwards. As for Pathos there is a lot of examples given because of how emotion 9/11 was for the whole country. “I got my ticket for the disaster” is what the author said when she first saw the site at the deli, it was very figurative. This goes back to when she asked a guard direction to Ground Zero and he/she said a variation of that …show more content…
Suzanne being there as they were cleaning up the disaster was a great time to reflect on what happened. Even today with the memorial and museum, the experience of horror that Suzanne describes will never be the same. The author purpose and her rhetorical strategies made this and interesting passage, and also by just knowing the history behind the attacks. She got what she wanted by giving the respect the ones lost deserve. The curiosity given by Berne was entertaining throughout, even knowing it was about a such a bad time in America history. Hopefully in the future there will never be anything like the attacks of the World Trade