At the beginning of the essay, Berne makes her audience to feel the gloomy weather by stating things such as “cold, damp” and “raw wind and spits of rain”. Berne also allows her readers to see the multitude of people from different cultures and countries coming together to view the disaster by describing the many families from around the country and the world. Berne makes her audience visualize the emptiness of the space that was once the World Trade Center when she states, “...“nothing” becomes something much more potent, which is absence.” When Berne compares ground zero to a construction site, she is able to make her audience hear the beats of the hammers and the loud cacophony of the
At the beginning of the essay, Berne makes her audience to feel the gloomy weather by stating things such as “cold, damp” and “raw wind and spits of rain”. Berne also allows her readers to see the multitude of people from different cultures and countries coming together to view the disaster by describing the many families from around the country and the world. Berne makes her audience visualize the emptiness of the space that was once the World Trade Center when she states, “...“nothing” becomes something much more potent, which is absence.” When Berne compares ground zero to a construction site, she is able to make her audience hear the beats of the hammers and the loud cacophony of the