Is killing a dog really the best choice of gaining knowledge? In Claire McCarthy’s article, Dog Lab, she explains why determining right from wrong can sometimes be challenging. She tells her readers her experience as a medical student allowing her to perform cardiovascular surgery on a dog. She explains her journey through acknowledging personal experience, creating a tone, and implying diction. The tone of the story never the less, changes drastically as you read. It goes from sadness, to discomfort, then, eventually, disappointment. Throughout the article, McCarthy has to make some the hardest choices, and most challenging decisions despite her preparation in her field. In order to gain more knowledge McCarthy has to choose between stepping …show more content…
away from her goal or sacrificing an innocent dog. During and after the article she shows how the pressure from the lab that gets to her near the end. And regardless of what she wants to accomplish her viewpoints will change. To begin with, killing any type of animal, for example, an innocent dog for a scientific experiment does not help anybody gain knowledge even if you had to sacrifice your education. At the beginning of the article, McCarthy explains how she is going to participate in a science lab that involves looking at the cardiovascular system of a dog. It will not just be McCarthy participating in the lab but, she will have many other participants to join as well. What McCarthy does not know yet is they will euthanize a dog to get there. As the teacher explained more of the rules and sees the dogs that they are going to put down, it really got personal. She explains her own personal experience, and viewpoints on how she felt after and during the experiment. McCarthy’s personal experience during the experiment was not what she had hoped it would be. At the start of the article she seems to be excited in some way. Never the less, everybody felt some sorts of excitement because, “it was for real”. The professor continued the lecture, McCarthy really didn’t understand what she was about to go through. Somehow, she decided to go with it. Not only was her education on the line but, this could be a life changing experience. McCarthy personal connection with the dogs strengthened after the lab. She quotes, “after the lab she went back to her the desk and started to remember seeing images of dogs run around” (McCarthy 94). Hence, the reason why this is so important to the topic is, not only did she remember the lab and the dogs, McCarthy felt somewhat memorable to the events before the experiment. McCarthy stated to realize that killing the dog’s wisent her best choice. In addition, she started to know between rights from wrong. The true reason why McCarthy view the lab differently was because, she understood killing health young dogs was not right. To continue, the tone in the article really shows how she felt during and after the experiment.
She explains her tone by using her own words, and viewpoints on how she felt after and during the experiment. McCarthy tone really changed drastically in the article. It went from exciting and interested to a little upsetting. She shows here happiness and excitement by quoting, “it was an exciting learning opportunity” (McCarthy 34). The reason why it changed so fast in her mind was because, not only were they going to view the cardiovascular system in real life for the first time, they were actually going to preform it on a real animal. “In addition, the words of choice that really describe the tone and the overall atmosphere of the topic is, disappointment, and sadness. The true reason why these words sum up this paragraph is because, McCarthy uses these words to describe, what she is felling and what she thinks about herself. McCarthy quotes, “she was disappointed in myself and in the lab” (McCarthy 36). In addition, she concludes that, the knowledge she gained wasn’t worth killing the dogs. McCarthy makes this her conclusion and one of her finial statements is because, it truly shows that even if you education is the line, why sacrifice another life to get that passing
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Cormac McCarthy, an American novelist, and screenwriter attended an interview from a 2007 episode, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, an American media proprietor, actress, and producer.
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McCarthy faced an ethical choice of performing an operation on a living dog. She had to choose between two sides. One which favored the dog lab because it was an excellent learning opportunity. She believed that “learning about the cardiovascular system on a living animal would make it more understandable and would therefore make us better doctors” (McCarthy 727). Another, where they valued the importance of life and did not want to kill a dog for their benefit since they could just learn the material by other means. McCarthy unable to dedicate herself to one side said “I didn’t want to kill a dog, but I certainly wanted to take advantage of every learning offered me” (McCarthy 727). She chooses to do the lab because it would have led her to become a better
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