'Synthesis Essay: The Gift Of Owl'

In the articles the gift of owl, the author writing a story about a character wanted to buy an owl as a gift for his friend's on valentine’s day, but he ends up discover the taxidermist were selling all kinds of bizarre object like a human limb or the skeleton of a slain pygmy.
In the first paragraph, the author went straight the main point by using an enthusiastic tone to describe how the owl is very important to the character, as the picture of an owl is on his mug, he also owns an owl candle, and he also uses owl cocktail napkin, which clearly indicate his love for owl. The choice of words he uses in this paragraph was giving the audience a sense that in this article, the writer will only talk about owls and how it's important to the character.

One effective technique that the author uses throughout the body paragraph is he uses peoples quote, not only he retell the character story, but he also quotes the character friend statement, which make the reader imagine on how the conversation went between the character and his friend. The tone that the author using throughout the body paragraph were casual and somewhat confusing. One example that the author demonstrate the use of the casual tone is around the third paragraph, which is when the character went into a shop in England to buy a barn owl, but instead of getting the barn owl, the taxidermist shows him a pygmy skeleton. After that, the taxidermist and the character in this articles have a very calm conversation about the origin of the skeleton, and how it died. A normal person would freak out and use nervous tone because of how the shop was set up, and the shop owner has pygmy skeleton and human limp for sell, but in this case, the author using a casual tone to make it seems like the character use to see these type of bizarre items before. The part where the author use confusing tone for the character is at the beginning of the fourth paragraph, the character were pondering how did the taxidermist know his though and show him the head in the grocery bag, or how he know that the character wanted to touch the