Analysis of “Disability” Nancy Mairs’ “Disability” is a short story from Carnal Acts that describes how Nancy Mairs‚ the speaker of the short story‚ studies the media’s view on disabilities. She is a victim of multiple sclerosis and feels inferior to everyone because she has a disability. The audience knows how she feels about this; she feels that handicapped people should be treated equally. She knows that she is not alone‚ but she feels like she isn’t accepted by everyone. This short story depicts
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English 23 September 2013 Being handicapped or disables isn’t always the best lifestyle to have‚ but it isn’t up to you on what “gifts” you get. Nancy Mairs knows a lot about that‚ because she is crippled. In the essay‚ “On Being a Cripple‚ Mairs writes for readers‚ disabled or not‚ about what it’s like to be crippled. She describes it in a sarcastic tone with seriousness and repetition with some very interesting word choice. Mairs suffers from being cripple‚ but uses the word with such comfort
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differently able. Nancy Mairs‚ who is physically impaired with multiple sclerosis‚ chooses the word “cripple” to describe herself. In her piece “On Being a Cripple‚” Mairs relays to her audience how she accepts being crippled‚ and she brings attention to her interpretation of the language used by society. Mairs portrays how she feels by setting different tones within her essay. At the start of her writing‚ Mairs puts off a confident‚ bold‚ and defiant feel to her essay. Mairs represents herself
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"On Being a Cripple" Most of us will never know what it is to be handicapped or a "cripple". However‚ accidents‚ illnesses and many other misfortunes cause millions of people to lose use of their arms‚ legs and other parts of their body. In "On Being a Cripple"‚ Nancy Mairs talks about her life struggle with multiple sclerosis‚ a chronic degenerative disease of the central nervous system. She demonstrates that life is what one makes it to be and that humor will help us deal with its harsh
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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‚
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On Being a Cripple Nancy Mairs is a cripple. She knows it and she chooses this word to describe herself. But why does she choose this particular word? Why not “handicapped” or “disabled”? Why must she make people cringe at the bluntness of cripple? There is very little that Mairs can control‚ not her fingers‚ not her hands‚ not her mouth‚ arms‚ and certainly not her fate‚ but maybe‚ just maybe‚ she can control the way you see her. Mairs perhaps chose the word cripple because of the way people
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Lydia Bonton Karen B. Gilmore ENC 1101 June 23‚ 2014 Summarization of Nancy Mairs’ Disability Nancy Mairs author of Disability- a self-claimed “radical feminist and cripple” with many accomplishments and degrees under her belt‚ Nancy is known to “speak the ‘unspeakable’” in her poetry‚ memoirs and essays‚ especially in Disability which was first published in the New York Times in 1987. Mairs starts her essay by describing herself as a crippled woman with multiple sclerosis
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Mairs has multiple sclerosis‚ as described in the passage. She describes herself as “crippled” even though there are other words to use in a case as such. In her essay‚ Nancy Mairs uses rhetorical devices such as tone‚ word choice‚ and rhetorical structure to present herself and her ailing condition. Mairs uses tone to convey how she feels about her multiple sclerosis. She states‚ “I want them to see me…whom the fates‚ viruses‚ and gods have not been kind‚ but who can face the brutal truth of her
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“On Being a Cripple” Reflection This essay is very different because she points out a word that defines her and then describes how it doesn’t define her. When Mairs was a graduate student she got diagnosed with MS‚ a disease that slowly shuts down your basic body functions and ability to move. She doesn’t like the fact that she has this disease but she accepts it. She knows that dwelling on it and being sad all the time won’t fix anything. This is very brave in my opinion‚ when you have had
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pity and sympathy from others‚ but do cripples always want this? In this passage entitled “On Being a Cripple‚” Nancy Mairs uses interesting word choice‚ repetition‚ and a sarcastic tone to touch upon a subject that most mature non-crippled Americans are not entirely comfortable with; using the so widely feared word “cripple” instead of the common “handicapped” or “disabled” to be polite or politically correct. Elaborating to a society‚ so infatuated with being politically correct‚ that using a word
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