The+Ashen+Guy

=Thomas Beller's “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001,”=  "At first glance he looked like a snowman except instead of snow he was covered in gray, asbestos colored ash. He was moving along with the crowd, streaming North up Broadway. His head and neck and shoulders and about halfway down his chest was covered in gray ash. You could make out a pair of bloodshot eyes, and he was running his hand over his head. A small plume of dust drifted off the top of his head as he walked, echoing the larger plume of smoke drifting off of One World Trade Center Behind him. "

This passage is just the description of the "ashen guy" by the author. It lends itself to the overall piece by explaining how the character appears, thus allowing the reader to visualize exactly what the character looked like. The author utilizes a simile in the first sentence, comparing the "ashen guy" to a "snowman", which appears to be the only rhetorical strategy the author uses in this descriptive passage. (Alex, Eagan, Taylor, Theresa)

"He was walking with the crowd, but his body language was a little different. Everyone, even those who weren't looking back, had about them a certain nervous desire to look behind them, to see, to communicate to their neighbor, but this guy had no interest in anything but in getting away from where he had just been. It radiated from every muscle in his body. To get away."

The purpose of this quote is to portray the difference in emotions of the ashen man compared to the surrounding people who have yet to see what's happening behind them. While this man had witnessed the attack from inside the building itself, the crowd around him had not, therefore they were not as mentally effected. This passage proves the differing emotions of the ashen man in correlation to the other people by portraying their differing body languages.

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