Conserve, Reuse, Recycle

1. Have you figured out yet that I'm going as a cadaver, an anatomical gift?

2. Semrau's main point of his essay was conserving, reusing, or recycling in anyway that you can. He choose to give his body to science after he died as a cadaver. Semrau leads the reader to think he is going to embark on a humanitarian project and devote himself to going "green" and teach others to reuse and recycle. And then he surprises the reader by saying his body will be used for medical research after his death. I think this technique was effective. By leading the readers down a different path it made his point more effective. The sentence, “Have you figured out yet that I’m going as a cadaver, an anatomical gift?” highlights the point of his article. The reader realizes that there is more than one way to conserve, reuse, and recycle. At the end of the article he encourages others to follow him in pledging their bodies to science to be used for valuable research. The intent of his essay was successfully achieved by withholding his purpose until the end of the article.