Analysis Of Ground Zero

Madison Carver
Mr. Kyle Taylor
ENGL 1101 MW 12:30
4 December 2017
Textual Analysis of “Ground Zero”
On September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack was imposed on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Two planes were hijacked, and as a result both crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center. Thousands of lives were lost that day, as well as an entire Nation’s soul. We now remember the tragedy of what happened on September eleventh by the emptiness created by Ground Zero. Ground Zero is the location at where the twin towers once stood. It is a memorial site in which millions of people travel from all over to see.
Many people throughout the world, especially those who were directly affected by the attacks

Instead, Berne, and people like her encourage people to visit the site. Berne argues that Ground Zero is a place much greater than nothing and a place that can fill emptiness inflicted by these acts of terror.
People argue that Ground Zero is a place that someone would not want to visit. Yet, Berne states, “the first thing I noticed when I arrived on the corner of Vesey and Church Streets was a crowd” (175). Therefore, contrary to what people think it is indeed a place millions of people go to see and experience. People claim that Ground Zero is a place to solely go and look at literally nothing, but it is much more than that. When Berne first arrives at Ground Zero she attests, “nothing is what it first looked like, the space that is now ground zero. But once your eyes adjust to what you are looking at, “nothing” becomes something much more potent, which is absence” (175). People mask their emotions about the devastating event by simply proclaiming that the memorial site is simply a space full of nothing. On the contrary, Berne is trying to say that the empty space is everything. That space of nothing is the emptiness left by the destruction of millions of families, thousands of lives, and the United States as a whole. She also states that “the most striking thing about

That it is not a place of nothing, but is very much something. It is a place that helps one to remember. It is a place no longer filled with complete emptiness, but is beginning to repopulate with people coming to visit. This is so important because remembering helps to recall the absence of what once stood and happened, and people coming to remember together helps to fill that