The author paints a vivid picture of the scene using emotive words like battered and scarred, the horror of the attack, the quote “the memorial sought to make the void left by the destruction of the attacks the symbol of loss” drives home the pain left by the horrific attack on 9/11.The author is remorseful,candid,compassionate,and elegiac. The author appeals to pathos for the majority of the article as most people even small children know about 9/11 and its impact on the United States as a whole. The discovery of the sphere and the dedication to rebuild and salvage it worms its way into your heart as 9/11 rocked our worlds and the aftermath shook for years. The sphere got “beat up it got damaged and it carries the truth inside of it...like any artifact that survived an event like that these things carry and inherent truth and memory that cannot be replaced.” The appeals to ethos were portrayed through the name drops of different artist and the original designer of the sphere whilst using prominent people like Mayor Bloomberg to add to their credibility. The author used this article to highlight the new position of the sphere and what it means to the community and those around it. The author starts with other artifacts and their meanings to each of their landmarks.She moves to the lack of an artifact for 9/11 the “sphere for plaza fountain” originally stood between the towers as a symbol of world peace and trade. The sphere made its way to Battery Park in 2002 and was welcomed by Michael Bloomberg but it was championed by Michael Burke who lost his brother a firefighter in the attacks. The sphere had to be moved when the memorial and museum were installed as there was supposed to be an absence of vertical so the sphere was moved to liberty park. The only mark left from the attacks that were vertical inside the museum was a Callery pear tree known as the survivor tree
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AuthorKennedy Fitch AP English and Language Composition Student. Archives
April 2018
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