Green Years

The line that jumped out at me as the main point of Semrau’s article is, “Quite simply, use what you have until it can no longer function.  Then it’s time to recycle.” After circling around the point, he states it bluntly.

Personally, I do not like how he “intentionally keeps information from the reader.”  I would rather Waldemar clearly state his belief in recycling and his view on the topic after having an interesting conversation with his friend, Fred Keller, chairman and owner of Cascade Engineering.  However, that is not his writing style; he stretches out the story much longer and keeps the reader interested.  It would be much easier for him say what he needed to say and get to the point: “I’m old and in med school.”  Semrau works his way around his point at first by telling the reader a little sneak peak of his life story.  As the reader, I do agree with his position in “going green.”  He is not completely saving the Earth, but he is doing what he can to save or “reuse.”  In the end, he has quite the courage to go back, at seventy-five years old, to college to become a surgeon, a child hood dream of his.