Extreme Dinosaurs was pretty boring I thought. Its one of those essays your either going to like or your not. Some people just aren’t interested in dinosaurs and I’m definitely one of those people. I was never the little kid who wanted to sit there and watch Jurassic Park, I thought that kind of thing was pointless and stupid and im pretty sure at that age I was scared of dinosaurs. One thing I did like about the essay was when he started talking about what the dinosaurs would think of a human. How he refers to us actually seems like how the dinosaurs would actually look at us. This essay was written by John Updike and featured in National Geographic. One thing we always talk about is what type of essay it is and who the target audience is. I think the essay is clearly for entertainment and to inform us a little bit. He uses a lot of humor in the essay so you can really tell he was trying to entertain us, but with all the facts about dinosaurs he was trying to inform us about them a little bit. The target audience is obviously people who are interested in science because who else would be reading the National Geographic Magazine.
The next essay we read was Buzzards, which was written by Lee Zacharias and featured in the Southern Humanities Review. She used buzzards as a reference to her dead father who never accepted her writing and all she does is pity herself throughout the whole story. One thing we discussed is that everyone would feel a lot worse for her if she didn’t play the pity party and try to make people feel bad for her. The story would also be a lot more interesting if it weren’t about a nasty bird like buzzards. That just makes the essay even worse than it already is.
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