In this passage, Nancy Mairs refers to herself as a cripple. She uses tone, word choice, and rhetorical structure to present herself as a cripple.
Her tone throughout the passage is very candid and blunt. Usually when talking about someone who is disabled you wouldn’t say crippled, you would be more euphemistic about it. Mairs is not euphemistic with what she considers herself to be, which is crippled. The tone that Mairs has throughout the passage helps her present herself as being crippled.
Mairs word choice is neutral. It is not striking to the reader. This shows that she is very confident about the situation and just wants to get her message across. She is not trying to be pretentious. Mairs word choice helps her introduce herself. …show more content…
Being called “handicapped” or “disabled” is not an accurate description for her. She says that “‘disabled’ by contrast, suggests any incapacity, physical or mental.” This is how she introduces herself as being
Her tone throughout the passage is very candid and blunt. Usually when talking about someone who is disabled you wouldn’t say crippled, you would be more euphemistic about it. Mairs is not euphemistic with what she considers herself to be, which is crippled. The tone that Mairs has throughout the passage helps her present herself as being crippled.
Mairs word choice is neutral. It is not striking to the reader. This shows that she is very confident about the situation and just wants to get her message across. She is not trying to be pretentious. Mairs word choice helps her introduce herself. …show more content…
Being called “handicapped” or “disabled” is not an accurate description for her. She says that “‘disabled’ by contrast, suggests any incapacity, physical or mental.” This is how she introduces herself as being