Assignment 5

Susan did pretty good at the beginning of the article, she describe very well what the article is going to be about. I think she tried to have a reader to keep reading by showing the details to interest them, to have them want to know more about taxidermy.
When Susan say that they were setting up the competition at a hotel, "Crowne Plaza hotel, the sort of nicely appointed place that seems more suited to regional sales conferences and rehearsal dinners than to having wolves in the corridors and people crossing the lobby shouting, 'Heads up! Buffalo coming through!' " I think it is silly, they should be doing this competition  show somewhere else less fancy. Susan wrote a lots of dialogue in this article, writing down what people has said that interests her. " 'The toes on a real competitive piece are very important. I think Bondo works nicely, and so does super glue.' " I think that is disgusting, talking like they are in a craft class like children.
I even do not like when I read this part, it outrages me even more, " I knew a fellow with cattle, and I told him, ' If you ever have one stillborn, I 'd really like to have it' I thought it would make a really nice mount." That makes me really mad! It is a stillborn cattle, have some respect!
Susan did a good job with little of history of taxidermy, but honestly I already know that it has been around for long time, "Has been around since the eighteenth century, but it was first brought into popular regard by the Victorians, who thrilled to all tokens of exotic travel and especially to an domesticated representations of wilderness." Susan.
"As long as taxidermy served to preserve wild animals and make them available for study, it was viewed as an honorable trade, but most people were still discomfited by it." Susan. I understand that there is other reason of being taxidermist but gosh, I can't stand the thought of them doing that to animals so they can be poked and prodded.
I am really surprise the most about this, "Taxidermy schools opened; previously, any aspiring taxidermist could only hope to learn the trade by apprenticing or by taking one of a few correspondence courses available." Susan.
"To be good at taxidermy, you have to be good at sewing, sculpting, painting, and hairdressing, and mostly you have to be a little bit of a zoology nerd." Susan. I think it sound like art, cosmetology, and science combined!
I think Susan could possibly be fansicated by taxidermy, "I said that his bobcat was beautiful and that even icicles on the piece looked completely real."
I do not know about anyone but when I read this, I feel angry, I did not want to continue read this. And it seems like Susan is very involved in taxidermy, she hang around the show, talked with taxidermist, and research the history. She did good job at it, a lots of details of people talking, and how they feel about it. But damn, it make me mad, I kept reading this piece is because my sister encourages me to do it even though herself hates taxidermy too.