Nancy Mairs Essay

Nancy Drew, commonly known as the original “Girl Sleuth”, is the lead detective of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. A young girl of 16 or 18 years of age (her age varies between stories), she was created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, famously known for his The Hardy Boys detective series, and written by a variety of ghostwriters under the penname Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew 2015). Nancy Drew is a female, amateur detective who stumbles upon mysteries in the fictional town of River Heights where…

While reading the passage, my image of Nancy Mairs was destroyed because i assumed something else because of the word “crippled. She presents herself with such boldness and ferocity, it’s as if she is saying “ i am crippled, but i don’t let it affect me”. She feels so formidable in the eyes of the readers, which is the first impression that i see as she speaks. Nancy Mairs is crippled, but just like Morrie form “Tuesdays with Morrie” she doesn’t let it have too much of an effect. Crippled is a…

Feeling like an outcast in society while being categorized in a group is assumed to make one feel lesser. Stereotyping and categorizing those who do not fit into society’s norms can impose a sense of bitterness for any differences people may have. Nancy Mairs and Zora Neale Hurston both were considered alien by their society because of their different aspects. Special aspects which differed these women from society both belittled and empowered them. Although society attempted to make these…

“Living Under Circe’s Spell” by Matthew Soyster does a better job effectively engaging the reader or audience in an emotional way. The use of pathos and imagery are definitely the strongest forms of figurative language that both Matthew Soyster and Mairs use to get their argument across. They use imagery to express…

those who are mentally or physically disabled. Three certain writers have written personal narratives and examined their views and their lives on being physically disabled. “Why The Able-Bodied Still Don’t Get it”, by Andre Dubus, “Disability”, by Nancy Mairs and “Should I Have Been Killed at Birth?”, by Harriet McBryde Johnson all relate to a certain aspect in life, which is living with disability. Even though each individual essay describes different attitudes and stories, they all seem to…

this the perspective that so many humans have? After reading Rosie Anaya’s “Mental Illness on television” and comparing it to Nancy Mairs’ “Disability,” despite these two essays conveying very similar ideas on the topic of how media negatively affects their reader or viewer’s outlook, each composition’s unique situation deserves closer examination. “Mental Illness on…

honest. The author, Nancy Mairs, writes with both conviction and vulnerability, not afraid to tell her truths and to admit to her own confusions and gray areas. The memoir tells us about what Mairs lives with, Muscular Dystrophy, but it also speaks to the larger category of mobility impairmenst in every section of the book. Mobility impairment is, in fact, a quite large category, encompassing everything from a slight limp in walking to in inability to manipulate most of one’s body. Mairs falls…

Matthew Soyster and Nancy Mairs both wrote a personal essay on being a cripple and living with MS. Both these essays are written for people who may struggle with a disease or people who do not understand what it is like to live with one, but Soyster’s essay had more of a negative outlook on his life. He argues that this disease defines and limits you. It takes away who you really are. Mairs has a more positive view on her situation. With every bad, she finds the good. She argues that disease…

its fullest potential. In the personal essays “On Being a Cripple” written by Nancy Mairs and “Living Under Circe’s Spell” written by Matthew Soyster, both authors have Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a severe disease in which they approach differently.Through a very negative tone, Soyster addresses those who do not have MS, by sharing the limitations and restrictions the terrible disease has on his life. On the other hand, Mairs uses a motivating persona to argue that nothing should stop a person from…

Cripple” by Nancy Mairs and “Living Under Circe’s Spell” by Matthew Soyster, the reader is lead into the state of mind of people living with disabilities. The essay written by Mairs analyzes how being disabled does not define someone's character, and Soyster expresses the struggles of being crippled and how others view them. Both essays direct the text towards other people who are disabled, or someone who may have a negative view on disabled people. With the use of diction and other devices,…