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In Mary Roach’s book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers(2003), she conveys that life after death is amusing, interesting, and creepy all at the same time. The author first introduces the journey of the cadvers head and how it is useful in the medical field by dialogue and anecdotes. She then exploits the crimes of anatomy by allusions and facts. Concluding, she then breaksdown human decomposition thru allusions, dialogue, and footnotes. Her purpose of this book is to amuse and educate people of the afterlife. The tone is calm and facetious. She seems to have no specific audience in mind because her text does not specifically aim at a particular crowd.
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- Intaglio- a image created on a flat surface made by cutting, carving or engraving (pg. 46)
- Eviscerate- to remove the entrails of (pg. 21)
- Recalcitrant- resisting authority or control (pg. 29)
- Pervades- to spread through (pg. 39)
- Flummoxed- confused (pg. 47)
- Gawk- to stare rudely (pg. 47)
- Quagmire- complicated situation (pg. 47)
3.Informational, Funny, Disturbing
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Allusion- “This is why cadavers in photographs on pathology and forensics journals have black bars over their eyes, like women on the Dos and Don’ts pages of Glamour”.(pg. 32)
Parallelism- “For centuries, surgeons had shared a rank with babers, doing little beyond amputations and tooth pullings, while physicians, with their potions and concotions, treated everything else”. (pg. 28)
Telegraphic sentences- “Though it once did”. (pg. 63)
Litotes- “The problem with cadavers is that they look so much like people.”(pg. 21)
Imagery- "The bacteria in our gut break those proteins down into amino acids; they take up where we leave off. When we die, they stop feeding on what we've eaten and begin feeding on us. And, just as they do when we're alive, they produce gas in the process." (pg 66)
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What exactly did the entries mean from the Diary of a Ressurectionist?
Why does the author put her thoughts in footnotes and not in the actual text?
What is death seem so negative in society and not celebrated like life is celebrated?
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“Nowadays, enlighted medical schools will hire a “pelvic educator,” a sort of professional vagina who allows the students to practice on her and offers personalized feedbackand is, in my book anyway, a nominee for sainthood.”(pg. 11)
