Changing The Tone

In the final chapter of the book, chapter 13, Dawkins changes slightly the way in which things are written. While the majority of the chapters specified on one topic, and explained thoroughly each one, this chapter had a different meaning. It was a great 'closing chapter' to the book. The purpose of this chapter was to ultimately sum of the other 12 chapters, and put it all into one. This is a common technique used in books, and I was completely expecting something similar to what I read except for that Dawkins also added new information to the book.

"The bodily manifestation of a gene, the effect that a gene, in comparison with its alleles, has on the body via development. The phenotypic effect of some particular gene might be, say, green eye color" (235). This is a brief demonstration of some of the new topics that he added. This is interesting because I always thought of the last chapter, or last paragraph in a short essay, as the one that summed everything up and put it into one paragraph. I don't really like the idea of putting new information into the last chapter because it ultimately makes the book more confusing to understand since it leaves you without any last thoughts to help clarify some things.