If there is one day I dread most upon its arrival, it would be 9/11. Sure there was an immense amount of strength as a nation represented, following the terrorists attacks, but it also brought a great amount of grief and sorrow. I remember watching videos of innocent people jumping from windows in the twin towers hoping to escape the terror. These people believed there was no one to help and no one to help them. They lost hope. In “Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11” written by Peggy Noonan, published in The Wall Street Journal on September 11th 2016, Alison Crowther—Welles Crowther’s mom—recalls the courageous actions to save the lives of others, made by her son on this horrific day. Noonan utilizes pathos, ethos, asyndeton, and …show more content…
"It was carnage — fire, smoke, bodies everywhere." Noonan writes this to describe the scene that Crowther arrives at when he reaches the 78th floor. By removing the conjunctions, it creates a more solemn tone for the reader. Noonan later goes on to say, "He never made it home. His family hoped, grieved, filled out forms." The use of asyndeton in this sentence establishes a somber and sorrowful tone, with the family now grieving over the death of their son. The use of asyndeton in this article adds depth to the sentence and allows the reader to understand and grieve with the family during this time. Noonan takes advantage of circular writing with her ability to connect the introduction and the conclusion effortlessly. Noonan begins the article referencing Crowther's red bandana, by saying, "And I think about Welles Crowther, the man in the red bandana." She then goes on to conclude the article by saying, "Be like Welles Crowther. Take your bandana, change the world." Noonan wants the reader to feel inspired by Crowther and his story. By utilizing this writing style she gives the reader closure and peace of mind, while also sending them a call to
The thundering sound of the bomb blast could be heard for miles. Men, women, and children run frantically in order to find shelter, being blinding by the massive amounts of dust that have caused the sky to turn yellow. Mothers are scavenging for their children, who were playing games outside, now stuck deep in the rubble of buildings that have collapsed on top of them. Houses have been destroyed, families have been obliterated and innocent lives have been lost. For many around the world, situations like these have become a part of everyday life. In A Pure, High Note of Anguish, author Barbara Kingsolver describes the confusion and questions that arose after the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11th. 9/11 was the largest terrorist
Not a word was spoken as an array of people, including myself, studied the pictures of that horrific day that aligned the wall of the dimmed entrance to the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The silence was an eerie and somber stillness that invoked grief into the hearts of all, even those such as myself who were too young to even remember the terror that took place nearby. Projected on the pillars were the stories of people and their reactions to the attack as it was happening, adding to the solemn mood. Already, even before I had reached the part that was the museum, a heavy grief for people that I never even knew swelled in my heart.
September 11, 2001 is a day that shook the United States to its core. Millions of Americans felt the pain, the loss, and the anger that came with the attack on their nation. It was a day of mourning, and when it comes to days of mourning it is difficult putting one’s pain into words. However, Leonard Pitts Jr. was able to move past the emotion. He put into his words, not only his own feelings, but the feelings of an entire nation. Pitts conveys the emotion felt after the terror attacks in his essay “Sept. 12, 2001: We’ll go forward from this moment” through his mournful, angry, and righteous tone.
Tuesday morning, September 11 of 2001, referred to as a day to remember, the twin towers were attacked by terrorists in a hijacked plane. Thousands of lives were lost and it was a day that brought great sorrow to America. George W. Bush, the president at that time, addressed his speech to America as a nation, giving them hope that the events that took place earlier that day would not shake them but that they would come back stronger. In this essay I will evaluate Bush’s formal 9/11 Address to the Nation and discuss the speaker’s appeals to pathos, logos and ethos to convey his message that America can stand tall as one.
The momentous tragedy that occurred on September 11th, 2001 has been engraved into the memories of United States citizens. What began as an ordinary day quickly evolved into an tragedy no one could have predicted: thousands of lives had been taken and countless more devastated and ruined by the acts of terror. Although unpredicted, the horrific and frightening news affected all. The four planes individually plummeted into their targets—two crashed into the Twin Towers, another struck the Pentagon, and the final hurtled into an empty field—eliciting a wave of panic throughout the nation. The jarring images of commercial airplanes hijacked by members of the terrorist group Al-Qaida managed to instill a fear. As the terrified country anxiously fretted about the future, President George W. Bush delivered a speech to address the nation in order to soothe the tensions and worry. In George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation,” the terrorist attack orchestrated against the U.S. is addressed with rhetorical devices such as parallel structure, imagery, and various appeals in order to inspire and heal the country.
September 11, 2001 is a date in history that changed the lives of people from all over the world and especially the lives of Americans. On this day nineteen militant men associated with al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, hijacked four airplanes and carried out multiple suicide attacks on different locations in the United States. Two of the planes directly struck the World Trade Center located in New York City, one of the other two planes hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the final plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania before it could reach its final destination. On this day, more than 3,000 people were killed including over 400 first responding police officers and firefighters. In recent years as people look back on that day it is remembered as a time when the country was joined together by grief and showed an overwhelming amount of comfort and support to the victims and their families; it was also a time of extreme national pride. People also remember that following the attacks the economy suffered tremendously, in addition, air traffic which makes up a portion of the economy was greatly disrupted, both of which created uncertainty about the security of the financial markets critical to the success of the United States. What most people do not remember is the immediate backlash and hostility the Muslim and Arab communities received following the attacks by both civilians and the media. This is a topic that has been largely ignored by the public and media’s
The 9/11 Memorial has about 300,000 people visit it each year, you should be one of them to. If you go to New York the 9/11 Memorial is becoming one of the top tourist attractions in the city, and I can’t see why it's not at the top already. The 9/11 Memorial is a beautiful pool with gushing water running down its sides, and within the pool there is a smaller square pool that still has water running down to it. Just to top it off, it has trees that surround the pools, just imagine it when it’s in the fall and all the leaves turn colors and the leaves may float down and into the pool. The best part about visiting the 9/11 Memorial is that it is free! You should be one of the 300,000 a year.
At the scene of the bombing, “A local hospital administrator explained modestly, ‘With the enormous outpouring of medical volunteers we received, it would have been nearly impossible not to have done a great job’” (Ray 2). After the terrorist attack of the twin towers, it was the survivors of the Oklahoma City Bombing who gave the 9/11 victims the most effective support. Janet Walker made the statement, “We’re the only ones who can truly say, ‘I know how you feel’ (Tanner 1). Kathleen Treanor, a woman who lost her daughter and both of her in-laws, said “It’s an immediate connection” (Tanner 1).
9/11 Essay Evaluation The author of the 9/11 essay is Robin Morgan, Morgan was a firsthand witness of the 9/11 attacks and explains in great detail the horror, mourning, heroism, and what the news networks did not show the viewers in the days following the attacks on the World Trade Centers. Morgan’s purpose for writing the essay is to share her firsthand experience and the sights, sounds, and smells she encountered during 9/11 and the following days. Morgan illustrates the darker side of 9/11 and the days afterwards that the media did not display to the American people. One effective sentence that Morgan displays in her essay is, “People walk unsteadily along these streets, wearing nosemasks against the still particle-full air, the stench
Most people from one time to another have had a memorable event within their lifetime. One memorable event that spread across the United States and affected many people is what is known as 9/11. This event affected many innocent lives, those that survived as well as those that did not. September 11th marks in history as a horrifying even that now affects people’s societal, political, and personal decisions. It is marked down as a day no U.S. citizen would forget.
September 11, 2001 brought many different feelings that were new to Americans. Americans had not experienced something of this magnitude in their own country. Even to this day, America continues to resonate what took place in our culture and in politics. The magnitude is definitely shown throughout many songs, books, and television shows that were created and released immediately following 9/11 (Melnick, 64). They try to illustrate the on-going thoughts of what happened and the attitudes that have evolved due to this tragedy.
A real life tragedy that occurred in September 11, 2001, left me with sincere empathy towards the New York firemen. As I read, "Healing The Hero’s Heart", by Sue E. Okenyi, It reminds me of how hard it is to lose a loved family member. Sue E. Okenyi held the position of a literature clerk for the largest video security manufacturing company taken place in Clovis, CA. Voluntarily, the firefighters in New York gave their lives to save others that had their families 3,000 miles away. Gloria Hatcher, known as “The Brownie Lady”, caused an immeasurable impact on numerous firefighters. In addition to this, Sue reached out to “The Brownie Lady” for advice to heal the hearts of New York firefighters that had to deal with working in the devastating place at Ground Zero, where piles of body parts remained.
The essay “Ground Zero”, written by Suzanne Berne was published in the New York Times in April 2002, a few months after the four September 11th terrorist attacks. In this essay, Berne describes her visit to the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers. Berne uses paradoxes, diction, and imagery to show that even the deepest wound can be healed over time, by the act of returning to the site and remembering it.
A year after September 11th, 2001 Newsweek published an article that contained a lot of mini-interviews asking regular people what they were feeling about the current memorial and situation and the event as a whole. In a sense I feel the author for the short story caught the spirit of the reactions
At first mention of September 11th, the first thoughts of many go to bumper stickers reading “Never Forget”. Others think of President George Bush proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” at a time when the aftermath of the terrorist attacks had hardly dissipated at all. Many recall the hundreds of American flags that seemingly appeared overnight in the months following the attack. After the attacks of September 11th, these recurring themes have remained in the fifteen years that followed. The overall tragedy of the event lends itself to our sacred memory, to a moment when innocent lives were lost and bodies unrecovered in a most unceremonious manner. This traumatic event requires healing, and yet as the site of destruction and construction, reminds us to replay the emotions constantly. The threat of terrorism remains, if not only because we are reminded of it daily, with our flags clutched in hand. The motives of memory in a place that has become sacred through tragedy are not explicitly stated, but make clear a few of the intentions of the memorial architects.