Mary Roach's non-fiction "STIFF" explores that the lives and history of cadavers are intriguing in many ways. Ms. Roach first informs the reader (me :D) in chapter one that surgeons practice on the dead to try out some new endoscopic technique or benefit by teaching the interns (apprenticeships) on how to do a surgery. She then informs the reader how back in the days people that were having surgery could feel every cut, stitch, and probing finger before anesthesia was invented (ouch!!). And to conclude in chapter two she explores how many surgeons committed crimes in order to get fresh cadavers to perform new techniques that can save peoples' lives in the future, the surgeons would pay people to dig them up from their graves, then Mary uses an anecdote to tell the reader about a garbage scavenger named Oscar Rafael Hernandez that was almost killed in order to sell his corpse to a local medical school as an anatomy lab ( :O Watch your back guys you never know if it can happen to you). Her purpose is to make the reader enjoy the fascinating life of cadavers in order for us to have a different perspective of looking at dead bodies like surgeons that are investigating this frontier. She seems to have a in mind everyone in general that want to laugh because she uses descriptive words to compare the cadavers, for example " The human head is of the same approximate size and wieght as a roaster chicken".
How does Mary Roach appeal to you with her way of writing?
How does modern society see these surgeons working on cadavers for new techniques for the future?
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Mary Roach's style appeals to me because as I read I always think I'm reading a fictional text, which is my favorite type of reading. Roach's humorous, yet informative, view on such a topic as human cadavers really interests me.
I think she is funy... and i think modern society will fully embrace the cadaver work if presented properly.
I like the Ice Cube--Arturo (lol. Be sure to re-read the precis sample..the entry that Matt Johnson did to be sure your entry is both academic and really expresses the "point' or purpose of each chuck (i.e. what is Roach's argument? enabling assumptions, what evidence does she use? what do you find surprising? etc.)
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