The Disposable Rocket John Updike

The Disposable Rocket was about John Updike's insight of how human males treat their bodies as being disposable in order to gain the physiologic purpose of reproduction. He also compare's men and women's bodies and the physical changes that they go through, and how they take their bodies for granted. John Updike is an American author born in Shillington, Pennsylvania and has a lot of credibility because hundreds of his stories and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950's. He is also a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. The context of Updike's essay is that both men and women take their bodies for granted when they are young and later on regret it. It has a tone that is rather humorous and relaxing. The author's purpose of writing this essay was to educate the audience about their body and how when you're much older, your body is not the same as it was in the past when they were much younger. The audience that Updike intended is mainly males because the essay is written in detail about a male's body. Throughout The Disposable Rocket, Updike uses numerous antithesises to obtain his purpose. He compares several contrasting things to the male body, and is able to state the similarity between them. For example when he says, "Inhabiting a male body is like having a bank account; as long as it’s healthy, you don’t think much about it" (Updike). I believe that Updike does a great job with accomplishing his purpose because he is well to describe the male body more in detail because he can use his own experience to relate, also because he is able to make connections with the male body and draw parallels between them.

Booster Rockets Detaching from Space

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"His body is, like a delivery rocket that falls away in space, a disposable means" (Updike).