Conserve, Reuse, Recycle

The sentence that reveals Semrau’s point was when he said “Quite simply, use what you have until it can no longer function. Then it is time to recycle.” This shows his point because he talked about being green and recycling. He even talked about reusing his own body for science.

The technique of withholding of information from Semrau helps the intention of his essay. Semrau’s intention is to show that we can recycle anything and should if it will help others. His writing strategy of withholding information keeps the reader interested. It makes the reader want to know why the things that happened periodically through his life were important to the story and wanting to know why we should recycle everything. The more the reader kept reading the more information the reader could get and be able to understand the article and why we should recycle. However if Semrau would have made his article long instead of relatively short his writing strategy would make a reader lose interest in the point of the article. Since it was short it could keep a reader’s attention to find that his point was that we should recycle everything until it is not useable to anyone.