n the piece "On Being a Crippled" written by Nancy Mairs, she discusses her personal experience with recently becoming crippled and the journey she has travelled through to learn to fully accept herself. Mairs utilizes an assertive yet sarcastic tone to get her point clearly across. She uses the derogatory word "crippled" to best describe her new situation which could be seen as peculiar to both abled and disabled people.
Nancy Mairs starts her composition off direct, indicating to the reader that this passage is going to have a serious tone to it. From the first sentence you could already recognize the level of comfortability she has grown with speaking about being disabled. She opens a discussion on a topic most people are not necessarily
Nancy Mairs starts her composition off direct, indicating to the reader that this passage is going to have a serious tone to it. From the first sentence you could already recognize the level of comfortability she has grown with speaking about being disabled. She opens a discussion on a topic most people are not necessarily