Kahn’s purpose in writing this passage was to grasp the people’s attention and show them what the transplant world looks like. What doctors do on a daily basis to save organs and people’s lives. Kahn sat in a hospital corner in a dead man’s room. This is where the organism transplant takes place. She watched the process surgeons went through to get out organs. The nurses do their duty as required. When Kahn went into the room, she expected the surgery to be fast-paced but it turned out to take longer. When people think about transplants it seems like an easy process but it is not that informal. The situation is sometimes so risky.
Under the hospital lights the body is exposed. The dead body lies there until the surgeons are ready to perform on it. The surgery itself takes hours then blood tests are being ran and lastly surgical teams are flown into the city. After everything takes place and the …show more content…
One of the rhetorical appeals she uses is ethos. Ethos is when someone uses credibility to persuade an argument. One of the ethos Kahn uses is Charles Murray, says we’ll still be using human-harvested organs a century from now”. In saying this, Charles informs people that no matter what changes happen, doctors will still use body parts from dead people to help save lives of patients who the organs. “You tell yourself it’s a good cause, which it is, a very good cause, but you’re still butchering a human.” When a doctor butchers a human, they know it for a good reason but then comprehend they are cutting a human