Author's Argument #2

1. Precis

         In Mary Roaches book Stiff (2003), she demontstrates the good use of cadavers in the world. Roaches first view on cadavers was that they could help explain deaths from war, enviromental purposes and any collisions so students would how to deal with situations like these. Roach then gets deeper into the topic of death by showing how cadavers contribute to society and what exactly happens to a person when they die. To conclude, Roach educates the lives of interns or future doctors with the study of death but instead of all lecture and talk its hands on with real dead bodies. Her purpose is to show how important cadavers are in the world because without them how will a student truly get to practice on a person without risking their life.

2. Vocabulary

cognizant-to perceive
surmise- to think witout certain or strong evidence
osteonecrosis-characteristic, habit
propaganda- informayion, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person.
genteelly belonging or suited to polite society.

3. Tone
reflective, direct, humorous

4. Telegraphic Sentence: “There is her heart “(179).
   Personification-“Leader lines spoke away from the dots on their labels: ‘brown leather
    shoes, coilpot, piece of spine, stewardness"(page 115)
Rhetorical Question: “..I don’t wish to be unkind, but who uses battle imagery to describe the angle of a blood flow” (125)?

5.  The heart, cut from the chest, can keep beating on its own for as long as a minute or two. This, Roach says, reflects centuries of confusion over how exactly to define death. Have modern scientific experiments on cadavers helped us to pinpoint the precise moment when life ceases to exist and all that's left is a corpse? Explain.

Roach says, "On a rational level, most people are comfortable with the concept of brain death and organ donation. But on an emotional level, they may have a harder time accepting it." Some organ recipients even worry that they will take on certain characteristics of their donors. What might this say about how we link the physical human body to the human soul?

6. “It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”