Steven Church is the author of "Auscultation," a short essay which is divided by four chambers; much like the four chambers of a heart. Steven Church’s writing is very open minded as he describes his essays as a “collages of ideas” he likes to echo his writing. His writing isn't just words, those words have a voice of its own, meaning every single word has a meaning behind it. Auscultation means, the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis. Therefore, the sounds described in the essay all have to do with the noise of life. In the first chamber, Church starts off with the story back in 2007 in Utah, where six miners were trapped 1,500 feet underground in a mine. The rescuers tried to rescue the miners by sending them a signals to make lots of noise, and then listening for any signs of human life, but the rescuers eventually gave up the rescue effort after they failed to detect any important sounds from underground. In the ending of chamber 1, he mentioned “Four by four inch iron plates to be placed at regular intervals in the tunnels, with sledgehammers kept nearby - the idea being that a trapped miner can find his way to a station and slam the hammer into the iron plate over and over again. Think of the noise below. Think of your ears. Geophones on the surface- the kind of sensors they use to anticipate earthquakes - would register the sound waves created by the hammer pings and create a listening grid, a kind of sound map of the mine, which they would then use to pinpoint the exact location of any miners still kicking below the rugged skin” (Church 7). By this, he gave an image of the closed tunnel being a womb of a pregnant women, and all the noise trying to be detected as the heartbeat being looked for, something to signal that life was inside. In the following chambers 2 and 3, the author talks about the stethoscope, and gives