The Test

Only by retelling his interviews with schizophrenia patients, the author provides the readers sufficient ideas about the illness and how hard and pitiful their lives are. The author cleverly leads the readers to his own life which is not less pitiful than the schizophrenia patients' whom he has written about. Life is so ironic!

Susie Bayer's T-shirt

George Packer interviewed Susie Bayer about her T-shirt that she gave to charity. He described her T-shirt vividly to leave an impressive and curious on the readers about what special would happen next to the T-shirt. The author spent time visiting the thrift shop and the recycling factory to see what happened to the T-shirt and it was so funny that Susie Bayer's T-shirt wasn’t in the donation and was shipped to Africa for sale as used clothes. He also discovered that most of other donated clothes were shipped to Asia, South America, and Africa for sale. It was so impressive that he continued his journey with the T-shirt to Africa just to discover that Susie Bayer’s T-shirt was sold to Yusaf Mama for $1.20. But it is his true observation and follow-up made his article worthy and reliable to the readers. His conclusion about the fact that Americans are such wasting money by buying clothes in disposable quantities becomes much stronger!

It is to say that we need true and good and entire observations for a good and influential piece of writing.

The Test

Only by retelling his interviews with schizophrenia patients, the author provides the readers sufficient ideas about the illness and how hard and pitiful their lives are. The author cleverly leads the readers to his own life which is not less pitiful than the schizophrenia patients' whom he has written about. Life is so ironic!