The Ashen Guy
“I was almost out,” sends chills throughout the statue figured people of New York (Beller 61). Thomas Beller, an author of a collection of short stories, manifests the horrific surroundings happening at the World Trade Center on that brisk morning of September 11, 2001. New York residents are not only frantic and solicitous; they stand trembling from terror. Beller exhibits the irregular atmosphere around him: “Cop cars parked at odd angles, their red sirens spinning” (Beller 60). Demonstrating the denial, barren faces of the people witnessing a World Trade Center tower descending to the ground. Distinctly developing a tone throughout this narrative; Thomas Beller validates the tone through different perspectives.
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Although the sentences are concise; it shows the immediate shock.
Covered in debris from one of the descending World Trade Center towers. New York residencies poised with woe. “I don’t know what happened” (Beller 62) , was the aghast words of the ashen guy. Besides the ashen guy; an abundance of people were permeated with questions. A virtuous lady revealed her concerns: “Do you know which way the tower fell” (Beller 62). Querying these concerns establishes the astonishment, disturbance, and dismay the multitude of people felt. By Beller acknowledging the concerns of the innocence, he is establishing the sympathy for the people who witnessed this horrifying scene. Although the author perceives the narrative has came to a closure; it has only begun. “There was a huge rumbling sound accompanied by the sound of people shrieking. Everyone who wasn’t already looking turned to see the remaining building start to crumble on itself, a huge ball of smoke rising out from beneath it, a mushroom cloud in reverse” (Beller 62). Making your audience assume that the narrative has came to a conclusion can be effective on the reader’s feel empathy for the one’s who were not so