On Being A Cripple Analysis

Shian Thorpe

Practicing by Glenn Kurtz is about the author's love for music and his journey of becoming a musician. The author talked about the advantages and disadvantages of how practicing can affect one's life of playing a instrument or becoming a musician. The author shows what it mean to be a musician with fear , doubts, discoveries and failure. Stated in the story it says “Practicing is striving,practicing is a romance , but practicing is also a risk , a test of character ,a threat of deeply personal failure”. The author show's the challenges taken to become something you want to be.

On Being A Cripple by Nancy Mairs is about the author going through a rough patch in her life , have multiple sclerosis at a young age,