“Let’s get out of here”: Ground Zero

            The entire essay emphasizes how hard it is to look at something when it’s not really there. Suzanne Berne points out her view from the second-floor deli that was located on Vesey Street. She starts off with a very detailed description about how the March day was when she got to the Manhattan financial district. The words she decided to use were faultless because she painted a striking image in my head. It was like as if I was there myself. She conveys the theme by having such detailed pictures in her work. “Suddenly there are the firefighters, the waiting ambulance on the other side of the pit, the police on every corner. Suddenly there is the enormous cross made of two rusted girders.” She builds up the intense moment by adding these remarkable details. It makes me stop and wonder for a little bit. In paragraph eight I noticed that every sentence in there starts with the word suddenly. This helps with people who are visual learners because instead of just having people show up in these areas, they are now just suddenly a mob of people in that one particular area.

            While I was reading this passage I came across a line that I will never forget. “And there, at last, I got my ticked to the disaster.” This line stood out to me so much because I thought, “Why would you want a ticket to a disaster?!” It painted such a vivid image in my head. It also made me think back to one of my summer vacations when I went to Niagara Falls. I went on a tour called “Journey behind the Falls.” These tunnels that were actually behind the falls were amazing. Produced by the thousands of gallons of water rushing only seven feet in front of you, the sound of the thunder. That was one trip I will never forget, just as Suzanne Berne had the ticket to the disaster.