The Price We Pay Adam Mayblum

In the short essay, The Price We Pay, Adam Mayblum writes about being in North Tower during 9/11 terrorist attacks. He talks about what he thought was going how and how they got out. This short paper started out as an email that he was sending to a friend. He then had it published online and it essentially went viral. While reading the passage, I found myself very intrigued with how everyone inside had no idea what was happening. Which was something I never thought about. As being someone inside, you wouldn’t know what’s happening, which makes a lot of sense. Some strengths of the essay are that it has good use of imagery, organization, and perspective. The best part of the whole paper is the amount of imagery. His use of words and descriptions paint of picture of the wreckage and confusion that clouded those inside. While reading, I felt like I was inside walking down the stairs with the employees. I could see the grey smoke and the soot. I could see everyone walking down the stairs with their hands

The grammar and sentence structure wasn’t very good. Besides that, I didn’t like how he tried to sum up the essay with a conclusion. Trying to sum of that experience doesn’t seem totally right. Although, I did like the end of the conclusion where he talks about how the terrorists didn’t successfully terrorize us and how the country united in the time of terror.

Adam Mayblum has two purposes for writing this email. The obvious reason would be to communicate with his friend about his experience. But the unseen reason is for Adam, himself. A way to cope for him or to deal with what happened may be to write everything down, to get it all out on paper. Or in his case, email, but same concept. Another purpose may be to share what it was like for someone inside the building rather than on the outside watching. Whatever the purpose was, Adam successfully explained what it was like inside 9/11.