Suzanne Berne not only paints a very vivid picture in her journal of the "Ground Zero", but also delivery to us the effective sound at the site . Suzanne setting and demograph are captured in her first two paragraphs of the journal. She starts out describing the theme at the Ground Zero with the sense of the moist air of the earl Spring season in New York City, where she finds a large crowd of people from varies nations-international to nationwise-waited patiently inline. In the third paragraph, her symbolic descripitive capture our attention when she describes:"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." Suzanne expresses her …show more content…
Her mind is recalling the tragedy event took place in September 11 as she witnessed the twine towers collapsed via the news on the television. Suzanne flashback and emotional feelings continue on in the next couple paragraphs where she incorporates the surreal sound of the site at the ground zero:"the pound of jackhammers, the steady beep-beep-beep of trucks backing up, the roar of heavy machinery." Where once filled with the people conversations, foot traffic of a busy financial district. Suzanne not only using the sound to pull us in as we are there right next to her, but she's also widen our vision closer to the site with the visualize descriptive in paragraph seven: "Ground zero is a great bowl of light,... Light reflecting off the Hudson River vaults into the site, soaking everything-...-what is not there becomes visible." The visual of the destruction of the two towers and thousand lives of loved ones were lost at this very site becomes visible to her. To those knew the actual devastation happened at this very site is "unbelievable", but the actual reality of the site to our naked eyes is "disastisfying" reflecting back to the true effects of the actual event occured in
In her graphic novel tragicomic, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel considers a broad range of subjects such as her and her father’s homosexuality, her parents’ often-volatile relationship, and the harsh reality that her fondest childhood memories may be a sham. On pages 82 and 83, Bechdel relays a scene that took place shortly after Bruce Bechdel’s funeral. Alison and her girlfriend, Joan, are relaxing at the Bechdel home when Helen offers Joan her choice of one book from Bruce’s prized library. Joan chooses a collection of Wallace Stevens’ poetry, which Helen reads and appears to have a deeper connection to. When Joan redacts her request, Helen insists that she take the book. This scene is microcosmically significant because it symbolizes Helen Bechdel’s
In Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, a New York Times Bestseller in 2005(CITATION1) written by Johnathan Safran Foer, a child named Oscar searches all over New York’s Five boroughs to get an answer for a mysterious envelope he finds with the word “Black” written on it. Inside the envelope is a key, to which Oscar believes is important because it could potentially belong to his father, who had died during the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Taking place a year after the attacks, Oscar continues to have trouble dealing with the grief he feels over the loss of his father. Oscar’s solution is to create two types of inventions. The first type of invention would help him remember his father and to mimic his father’s voice. The second type would modify the world, such as a building that would go up-and-down instead of an elevator. This is Oscar’s way of coping with the loss of his father. However, by imagining these inventions, he is actually replaying and retelling the story over in his head, which leads him to act strangely around similar situations that occurred during 9/11, such as airplanes and tall buildings. Oscar, a child living with his widowed mother, searches for the answer to a mysterious envelope that he believes belonged to his father, and struggles coping with the fact that his father had died during the attacks on September 11th, 2001.
During part three the writer uses descriptions of senses “Sounds of her sobs” and “Lay silently.” The use of the senses makes the story feel more alive as its describing the way you feel, see and hear things.
...is when Bill and Josella Playton have commandeered an apartment in London. Josella says, “I'm frightened-horribly frightened. Can you hear them-all those poor people? I can’t stand it.” This conveys the fact that Josella is aware that she could sustain a group of people affected by the comet debris, but she does not; as she is frightened by their desperate attempts to survive anything they can to survive. She is also aware that their attempts to help them would be in vain. She is conflicted, so she remains in her room, which induces tension. Narrative tension from events and characters gathers throughout this novel.
...e the situation that triggers the emotion of hate, anger, sadness. When a person begins to link negative experiences to positive emotions, they begin to love themselves more and not fear their reality. By loving themselves they create a loving reality. In the movie, after Amanda reroutes her neuronetwork she begins healing. She is able to face her cheating husband that has incurred much pain and hatred in her being. As she is healing, she gains control of her reality.
A girl named Sierra Stokes lost her brother three years ago. He disappeared when he was going to the store alone to get cookie dough to make cookies that night and he never came back. Then there was a girl named Casey Cramer. He mother was a drunk and she did all the driving as well. Well one night her mom picked her and a few others up from the beach, and she was drunk. Her mom drove them into a “stonewall” and Casey had “trauma to her head.” (Wolitzer 102) There is a picture of a jar of strawberry jam because Reeve had given her strawberry jam at Dana’s party where they also kissed above Courtney’s, Dana sister, dollhouse. Lastly, there is a picture of a journal because in the book students write in their journals for an English class and they soon realize that they go to a place they named Belzhar. They go to this supposed “place” after they write five pages worth in their journals. This place is where they go “when they can’t take reality, because it’s too depressing.” (Wolitzer 107) They see the people/events that caused them the trauma in
Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962 in hartford connecticut, she was also the youngest of 4 children in her family, she was not only an american author but a screenwriter as well, best known for her most recent books released, the hunger games trilogy. Suzanne Collins did not live a normal life, with her father being in the Air Force she traveled a lot. As a young female Suzanne grew up wanting to be a successful woman. If you would have bet me back then I bet that she would've never known where she would be today, Because being the author of one of the most popular novels in today’s era she has gotten more publicity and attention than she probably ever could have imagined. 1234567891011121314
In the beginning, she was a woman who was constantly thinking about money, her job, and love issues. The continuous stress that these situations brought her started deteriorating her life, both emotionally and mentally. But when she spent the whole day fighting the unpleasant cold with her dogs, she realized in the near end of her journey what had happened. About five miles down the trail, she finally recognized that she was no longer thinking about any of the day to day problems which had been constantly plaguing her mind during her day to day life back in the city. She was finally able to escape from her “house of mirrors”, whereas before she could not even find her way out of a paper bag. This dramatic change just after a whole day of fighting thirty-two degrees below zero temperature proves how the natural world provides us what’s “good for us” even when we are unaware of it at the
As a result, she met emotions she did not think existed, felt a huge hollow and felt like a walking dead. Her confused days and sleepless nights became a ritual; therefore, the only life she knows was a torturous hell
From the moment I stepped foot in the elevator to the 102nd floor, I knew the memories of this ride would last a lifetime. As I looked around at a plethora of different faces from around the world, I noticed that the elevator was silent. Surrounding me was a time-lapse video of New York City over the centuries, beginning in the 1500s. My eyes widened as I watched it grow from grasslands to the city that never sleeps. Midway to the top, the skyline changed drastically forever. The New York City landmark, the Twin Towers, vanished from existence, and the creation of the Freedom Tower began.
Morgan then begins to dive into the depths of her desolation. The reader is made aware of how lonely she felt with the use of personification:
When reading the story the first time, you get the feeling that the woman is most likely dead. She described her surroundings as a “blue day” and that they sky looked “glassy.” Almost, as if the woman had drowned in the river and was looking up at the sky through the surface of the water. The woman also feels happy and this is probably because she has the chance to return to where she came from. The woman appears to be stuck between two worlds, because the strange description of her surroundings almost seems ghostly, when she reaches her childhood home there is an immediate sense of belonging that is gone almost as soon as she felt it.
Thomas Schell’s story of the Sixth Borough symbolizes Oskar’s struggle in society during the aftermath of 9/11 and the death of his father. Oskar’s vivid imagination and high anxiety levels make it difficult for him to form friendships and he is often isolated. “Some of the kids cracked up. I knew they were cracking up in
There is no such thing as silence here. Everything jumps out at once, like the feathers on a peacock, immediately catching your attention. There are uncountable masses of colorful blobs moving, but within that great glob, there are many people, each person moving with the powerful confidence of a lion. The buildings all loom over the people, a grand oak tree above thousands of ants, tying together this concrete landscape. There is a tangible atmosphere of wonder, and you are left in awe of such an astonishing place. This magnificent place is none other than Times Square in New York City.
It was just like any other day, or should I say any other rainy day. The sky stained with somber grays and explosive porphyrous hues and the howling wind running about. The scene, to be completed, had big fat droplets of rain pouring down, soaking all of Manhattan. Lots of things have happened here in Manhattan. Great big complicated things, things where even I, myself, couldn't make heads or tails of. Things that I haven't quiet come to grips with, things where I may never come to grips with. Because if I don't ever come to grips with it or ever say it out loud then I can pretend that it never happened. But that's okay, I would like to think that there's is a lot of things that I don't know or just not recognize, not just of Manhattan, but of the whole world, the whole universe, the whole Galaxy!