Ground Zero

Suzanne Berne does a great job using description words to create a vivid image in her reader's minds.  I was suprised at how much I liked this essay to be honest.  I loved all the description words and I loved the sad and dreary overall theme.  Berne does a great job making the reader feel the mood that she had when she visited Ground Zero.  By using descriptive words such as "clutching," "absense," "emptiness," and "overcast," the author is able to express extremely accurately the mood she is experiencing in real life.  I also liked how the whole story is from her point of view.  It is much easier to connect to and to feel like your actually there compared to an essay that just states overall facts about Ground Zero.  This essay is about her real experiences and emotions.  The last line in the essay... "And by the act of our visiting - whether we are motivated by curiostiy or horror or reverence or grief, or by something confusing that combines them all - that space fills up again." really affected me.  I just really liked this sentence because it applies to the author's experience at Ground Zero and it can apply to all sorts of different situations.  The power in this sentence really sums up the rest of the essay.