Orleans uses simple language throughout her writing. She talks in a way that seems to me like Biff would be able to understand her. There were never any big words used and I noticed how this nicely flowed the writing along. With the simple sentences you could understand what Orleans was talking about. Instead of difficult word choice, she uses a different tactic to give the reader a hook and interesting twist. She chooses not to mention that Biff is a dog until the second page. This makes the things she is saying seem more funny and shocking because she writes as though she is talking about a human. There is a lot of praise for Biff throughout the story and it seemed as though it were an ad campaign to get across how he does not need a blow dryer and other things, he does not mind being in his crate, he wins many shows, and he is a great breeder. There was never really anything bad said about Biff and I got the feeling that this was a review of Biff that he was going to read himself because he was spoken of so highly and like he was a person. I thought this was a really good way to tell the story because anyone with a dog would say that they are people too.

My favorite part was the paragraph that started with the list of items in his suitcase. I thought it was a little comical that a dog has a suitcase in the first place, which goes with a bunch of other things in a show dogs life that are pretty out of the ordinary. This paragraph creates a long list of items that gives an idea to the reader of what kind of dog uses them. I like the idea that Orleans makes this list of all the things to make him look nice and then goes into how Biff was scheduled “to make a semen deposit” and “had a date that same week with a bitch named Diana.” The list sums up Biffs appearance and how he is easily maintained in the sense that he does not need to be blow dried or use curlers, just some powder and baby oil. This leads really well into the breeding life of Biff. Orleans does a good job of creating a transition between two separate subjects with one line about a schedule. The idea of giving the list then talk about breeding adds a funny element to this paragraph as well as throughout the whole story.

I think I would take away the idea to use clever transitions in my own profile article. I would use my words carefully to reflect the story that I am going to tell. I like the idea that Orleans waits to tell the reader that she is describing a dog which is also something I may thing to play around with.