Assignment 6 Cameron Bazan

Assignment 6

 Orleans main tone in her article “life like” could be surprised. You can find this by reading it seeing all the spots where she was astounded or taken back by a certain thing she found out about taxidermy. For example “That there is a taxidermy championship at all is something of astonishment, not only to the people in the world who have no use for a Dan-D-Noser and Soft Touch Duck Degreaser but also to taxidermist themselves. Orlean sometimes loses her ethos when she puts in controversial quotes that could be judge in two completely different perspectives. For example when she talks about the lady that says she loves dear this could be looked as that taxidermist are weird and unusual people or that they have a lot of respect for the Animals.

I believe that in Orlean world she did not know what taxidermy is and she presumed that a lot of her readers had no idea what taxidermy was or if they knew what it was they know very little about it. She defiantly wanted to reach out to her readers and show them what taxidermy is and how it’s not as bad as it they may think it is.

Orlean wrote this in an article form because she is a journalist so maybe this is her most convincing medium for getting her purpose out on a subject. I believe this genre could help her get her purpose out because articles are very usually short and they get the message across quickly and efficiently. This would allow readers to make quick work of her article and allow them to understand it better.