Mary Roach Chapter Summary

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Mary Roach, writer of many New York Times bestsellers, has gone to different universities to give examples and persuasions on why we should donate our bodies to science to help with the field of forensics. Mary Roach uses imagery and empirical diction to convey that donating our bodies to help forensics studies is very beneficial. These rhetorical devices are used to amplify the and influence the reader to be more inclined to donate their body to science. Forensics is the scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of a crime. In this chapter, Roach specifically explains how the donation of cadavers can help aid in this field of science. New technological advancements in this field would be very beneficial to solving …show more content…
This impacts the audience by showing how they can help the government make this technological advancement. After establishing how the electronic noses could help identify cadavers, Roach goes on to explain cadaver dogs and how they help the forensics field. Roach uses empirical language to convey that these dogs that are trained are important to the military and how they help in real world situations with bodies at the bottom of lakes. This strategy supports the main idea by showing how cadaver dogs are beneficial and a part of the forensics field that Roach is talking about persuades them to donate their bodies to something they are more familiar with. Explaining how cadaver dogs are trained helps the reader gain more knowledge on what forensics is and the different beneficial things that it does for the real world. Meanwhile, Roach is in the facility watching the embalming process as a situation is being brought to attention. Roach uses imagery to explain how Theo over the course of his studies has learned to look at the good side of working with these bodies and how his perspective