Letters from the Ground Zero

letter from the grease Zero is an essay about the tragedy of September 11 in New York City which was unexpected and unbeliev adequate but nevertheless happened in broad daylight and caught everyone all over the world asleep and for someone who lived six blocks away from the terra firma Trade Center when the acts of terrorist act happened in the Ameri domiciliate soil like Jonathan Schell, the author of this essay, it is one unfor hiretable moment in his life to find oneself much(prenominal)(prenominal) devastation in your country and your countrymen.Schell narrated and illustrated what he had heartrendingly encountered firsthand that day and according to him, My particularized resemblance was violated and mutilated. As I write these words, the acrid, dank, rancid stinkit is the feeling of deathof the still smoking site is in my nostrils.The occurrence of such an attack could select been prevented if every governments vigilance was increase and complacency was not heightene d. It will always be a break away option for all countries to be circumspect, to draw off extra precautions and do what they can to obliterate such demonic creations.In the while of development of such sophisticated weapons of mass destruction, it is never impossible anymore for a specific part of the globe to become the next understanding zero. As Schell told, We have cognise this intellectually, but now we know it viscerally, as a sickness in the pit of the stomach that is unlikely to go away.The author was able to give a testimonial to the tragedy since he lived near the ground zero and who better to narrate it than someone like him. What the essay tries to sway is for people to see that something has to be done to stop this from happening over again to each ones homeland and protect the countrymen.The author efficaciously narrated what can be seen on the television at the same time the streets of New York right after what happened like how people helped each former(a) in any way they can and how so galore(postnominal) gallant deeds emerged after such consecutive acts of terror occurred in the linked States of America. The author said the surrounding buildings were smashed but still standing(a) and looked down eyelessly on their pulverized brethren.He was also able to witness how heroic men and women tried to slowly and patiently work in finding the people under the numerous piles of rubbles in ground zero which made it very difficult for the rescue operations to get as many people out of the site alive in time their persistence somehow gave him the reassurance.Despite all these the American people ruddiness above the devastation and destruction even after so many lives of people, employees, firemen, policemen and rescuers were lost. America has truly learned a huge lesson in a most traumatic, appalling and heartrending way.The essay gives the reader a coup doeil of the atmosphere of the perimeter near ground zero, immediately after the Worl d Trade Center was struck. It makes the reader see what it took and how much courage and bearing it took for people whose presence was literally there when it happened.Everyone should try to move and take action on how these attacks can be prevented in the country known to be most powerful in this world.Works Cited Schell, Jonathan. Letters from the Ground Zero. Connelly, Mark. The Sundance Reader, Fourth Edition. Boston, Massachussetts Thomas Wadsworth, 2006. 119-120.