Though being a narrative, The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001, is an accurate depiction of a terrifying travesty in our history. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 haunt the lives of many and create many depressing images in our minds. Intentionally, the writer, Thomas Beller, aids in creating these images throughout his writing. He effectively prepares a chaotic tone and embodies what it was like to be in the seat of all the action by the use of diction, imagery, and sentence
convey the emotions felt on that day. One of these authors is Thomas Beller whom in his short story “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11,2001” uses a chaotic tone to talk about the events of 9/11. Using diction is one way that Beller created a chaotic tone. Single words in his story are used create this tone. These words Beller could have substituted for a more placid synonym;however, using the words he did added to the tone he was aiming for. Beller
hectic and frenzied. Many people have went on to write stories about what they experienced. Thomas Beller wrote one as if he were watching the events unfold. In “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001”, Beller creates a chaotic tone by using diction and imagery. Thomas Beller tells about the 9/11 event through the eyes of a regular businessman in New York. When Beller put together “Ashen Guy”, his job was to make the whole scene feel frantic and chaotic because that is exactly how