Ground Zero

The entire essay emphasizes absence. The author depicts this theme by stating the fact that there once was a building there but when people go to look at the site there is nothing to see. She says that "Once your eyes adjust to what you are looking at, "nothing" becomes something much more potent, which is absence". I think that when she says that there is so much more there that you just can't see. It's knowing what was once there has been taken away, and the memories and feelings that people get when they look at it is so powerful. Even though nothing is actually visible every single person to visit ground zero can still imagine what happened on September 11th, 2001 and how it has effected each and every one of our lives in a different way. The way Suzanne Berne describes the site of ground zero and the emotions of the people she was surrounded by gives you a broad overlook of how it truly has touched the hearts of everyone.