Assignment 5
I believe that Susan Orlean
composed this article to create awareness of what taxidermy actually is and to
shed light to the stereo typical thoughts of taxidermy.
Orlean would have hoped her readers would feel like
taxidermy is a natural art not mean and cruel like some believe, and that the
taxidermist themselves would not be looked at as weird and cruel as well. You
can see this in some of the quotes for example “I love deer one of the champions
in the whitetail division said to me there my babies”. This quote is very controversial
but I believe that Orlean was leaning towards the side the taxidermist respect
for the animals.
While I was reading Life Like I felt like it was an interesting
paper kind of had me puzzled in some part. I personally knew what taxidermy is
and I do not find it weird at all I find normal and respectful for the animals.
I think Orlean wanted me to feel like that, she wanted me to find out new stuff
on taxidermy and to show different perspective on how people are only trying to
respect the animals.
I definitely agree that this paper was confusing to understand and she did share some dialogue with other Taxidermists about there love and enjoyment of this art. As a reporter, setting all biases aside, do you feel like Orlean was siding with the Taxidermist who said "I love deer. They are my babies" or was she going into their world to understand maybe why they do this?
ReplyDeleteI like your perspective that you find taxidermy respectful. That is useful when constructing a critical interpretive essay! For example, your CP could be about this perspective and the things Orlean did to reinforce your perspective. (Just an example of how you could use it.)
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