Rhetorical Analysis of Being a Cripple Essay

Without actually living in another person’s life, someone cannot really tell what the other person is going through or how they are feeling, and this can occur when it comes to disabled people. In “On Being a 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, Mairs tends to sound more humorous and lively,…

“Disability” Rhetorical Analysis In the essay "Disability" by Nancy Mairs, the author argues that the media must treat people with disability as normal. Mairs support her claim by first appealing to the reader’s emotions, secondly by proving her credibility as a disabled person, and thirdly appealing to the reader's logic by showing illogical reasoning of people in the media. Mairs’s purpose is to prove that disabled people are normal people as well in order to persuade advertiser to represent…

He believes that her intuitive love, which words cannot fully capture, lives on through her influences on her children. The irony is that her absence in the novel depicts her solid presence in her children’s lives. Hewson explains the importance of Addie’s monologue placed at the middle of the book, and her continued effect on her children’s attitudes and behaviors, in supporting his view that Addie is far from being a peripheral character, but a much more dominating one compared to Anse. He…