A majority of authors use a lot of the lessons and values they got from their life experiences to write a compelling essay. In both Nancy Mairs’s “On Being a Cripple” and David Sedaris’s “A Plague of Tics,” the authors had written essays that related to their disabilities and ways they coped with it. These two essay might be similar in more ways than one, but the overall message that they give to readers are completely different. Mairs uses her experience and disability to convey a specific message that is inspirational to her readers. This is completely different from Sedaris because for his essay he is recollecting his experience on how he lives with his disorder and shares this with his readers. Through a careful comparison and contrast of
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Maris starts off her essay with a scene of herself embarrassingly falling onto the toilet seat and accepting her disability (259). Mairs is credible enough to talk about the disability that changed her life because she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Also, the other things that make her qualified to write this essay are because of her multiple degrees in English literature (Mairs). Sedaris is a writer with enough creditability that makes him qualified to write this essay. Sedaris is known for his humorist writing, so it was a perfect addition to add this type of style while he discussed his disorder. Being education and living with the obsessive compulsion disorder makes him uniquely qualified to write about this …show more content…
By exploring their purpose to write such an amazing piece about how they dealt with the new adversities in their life. Mairs purpose to write this essay was to inform people of her disability and the way she deals with it in her daily life. Mairs self-identifies as being a crippled and embraces all the moments that come along with the hardship of her reality. The moment she had changed was, “When I was twenty-eight I started to trip and drop things” (Mairs 261). Throughout all of this Mairs never failed to lose her humor in life. Mair’s essay is meant to instill confidence in people who live with a disability. Just because a person gets a disease that does not mean their life ends, it just means another has begun with a different context. Maris is all about owning one identity and being empowering while still facing their disability. Sedaris takes a different approach on how he wrote about his disorder but it still resemblances Mairs. Sedaris uses humor to discuss the way he lives with his tics. Like it is a part of his daily life, it became somewhat of a chore to him that he must complete
Maris starts off her essay with a scene of herself embarrassingly falling onto the toilet seat and accepting her disability (259). Mairs is credible enough to talk about the disability that changed her life because she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Also, the other things that make her qualified to write this essay are because of her multiple degrees in English literature (Mairs). Sedaris is a writer with enough creditability that makes him qualified to write this essay. Sedaris is known for his humorist writing, so it was a perfect addition to add this type of style while he discussed his disorder. Being education and living with the obsessive compulsion disorder makes him uniquely qualified to write about this …show more content…
By exploring their purpose to write such an amazing piece about how they dealt with the new adversities in their life. Mairs purpose to write this essay was to inform people of her disability and the way she deals with it in her daily life. Mairs self-identifies as being a crippled and embraces all the moments that come along with the hardship of her reality. The moment she had changed was, “When I was twenty-eight I started to trip and drop things” (Mairs 261). Throughout all of this Mairs never failed to lose her humor in life. Mair’s essay is meant to instill confidence in people who live with a disability. Just because a person gets a disease that does not mean their life ends, it just means another has begun with a different context. Maris is all about owning one identity and being empowering while still facing their disability. Sedaris takes a different approach on how he wrote about his disorder but it still resemblances Mairs. Sedaris uses humor to discuss the way he lives with his tics. Like it is a part of his daily life, it became somewhat of a chore to him that he must complete