A Short Note On Mairs

In the passage Nancy Mairs has from multiple sclerosis. Mairs uses a complex word choice, her confident tone, and straight-forward personality to present herself in this passage. Maires knows and understands that she is cripple. She uses the euphemism “ differently abled” to convey that the word differently abled doesn’t describe anyone. Furthermore, she does not like to be called differently abled, she much rather be called cripple because that’s what she is, according to her.

In the passage, Nancy Mairs introduces herself as crippled but confident. She explains who she is as a “cripple”. She is a liberated and brilliant person who is bold in what she believes in. Throughout the passage she uses every word to depict her disadvantages as a “cripple”.

Nancy Mairs Essay Crippled, handicapped, or disabled? Nancy Mairs describes herself as crippled even though many people who are disabled hate that word. In the passage Nancy Mairs discusses her view and opinion on the three words. Upon discussing the three words she uses tone, word choice, and rhetorical structure to enhance her claims. Nancy Mairs describes herself as crippled and she goes on to tell us that she “would never refer to another person as crippled.

Nancy Mairs describes herself as a “cripple” and only that. In the passage, she describes her reasoning behind her fondness of the word “cripple” and not other terms more openly used by others such as “disabled” or “handicapped.” To achieve getting her message out she uses different tones and specific words. Mairs applied a positive tone when describing the definition of cripple. She makes the reader see “cripple” in a positive way referring to a Gospel and defining it as “a lover of words.”

Despite the fact that Nancy Mairs chose a well diction and sarcastic tone to evoke readers empathy toward her essay , she also evokes a sympathetic response to her audience by telling reader that she does not feel sorry for being a cripple. She uses satirical description of her feelings , by allowing reader to see that she also felt sympathy for herself. Although Mairs, evokes empathy when telling her story, her sympathetic response toward her illness shows that she felt disconnected with her illness and that she did not have nothing else than to take what her destiny brought her. According to Mairs “

In the passage Nancy Maria prefers to call herself “cripple”. She finds “disabled” and “handicapped” to be inaccurate of her condition. Nancy Mairs uses tone, word choice, and rhetorical structure to convey feelings on the term “cripple”. Nancy Mairs tone throughout the passage was neutral. Statements like “I am cripple.

Nancy Mairs, a feminist writer who has Multiple Sclerosis, defines the terms in which she interest the most with the world. Nancy Mairs will name herself a cripple and not be by others. She will choose a word that represents her reality for example in the beginning of her story she mentioned about her being in the bathroom trying to come up with a story about cripples. She was in the handicap bathroom and when she tried to open the door she fell, landing fully clothed on the toilet seat with her legs splayed in front of her and she said “the old beetle -on-it’s back routine.”

Her reason for defining herself as a cripple is because she wants “[society] to wince.” She uses the astonishment of society towards “crippled” to her advantage in order to change their image of her into a tough woman. She constantly uses a word that is despised my many to make her seem as though she is someone who does not care about other’s opinions, but rather as someone who does what she believes is right. Her depiction makes her seem like a mentally strong woman. One of her most powerful phrases is when she denies that she has “lost anything in the course of this calamitous disease.”

Reflection on the article, “The Virtues of Ballpark Normalcy” by Lisa Blumberg Lisa Blumberg defines ballpark normalcy as “ life that is not quite normal-but is ‘in the ballpark.” My question is what is normal? Every person young or old has strengths and weaknesses; this is true to anyone, whether they have a disability or not. The word ballpark in this context refers to a range.

People with disabilities are often viewed as less capable, less intelligent and not available to cope well in society. Mairs uses the different persuasive strategies such as ethos, logos and pathos to create a conscious awareness to build a world in which despite the differences everyone is treated with equality and dignity. She imagines her body as something other than problematic, but a reason to fight to build a world in which people wants her in. Mairs mentions in page 169 “I imagine a world where people, allowed the space to accept- admit, endure, embrace- their diverse and often difficult realities.” As Robert M Hensel, a famous Guinness world champion and a man with spina bifida said once “There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as

A tested individual is a man who is clever, solid, person who encounters something that has crippled them, however has survived and made sense of how to thrive in their surroundings, ending up being particularly arranged and trying. Nancy Mairs is an impaired individual. She uses complex tongue and method of reasoning when she was deduction why she called herself an incapacitated individual, exhibiting that she is clever. Thusly, logos. On illuminating her own particular complex, Mairs moved towards ethos, clearing up her life and general rationale, showing that she is serious.

In “Unspeakable Conversations” she details her experience. Harriet McBryde Johnson effectively uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos and pathos, along with her uses of first-person narrative and descriptive language, to support her argument that contrary to stereotypes, a person living with a severe disability can live a happy and fulfilling life. Harriet McBryde Johnson was born in 1957 with a neuromuscular disease. At the time of this essay, she had been disabled for over four decades. Born to parents who both taught foreign language, they were able to afford hired help but she knew it could not be for her whole life.

When people hear handicap they think not able to care for themselves. Nancy wants to be known as a tough individual able to take care of herself. The reader can feel the agony of what Nancy is feeling. The tone of this passage is determination and agony. Nancy feels that cripple is more stronger word than “handicap” or ‘disabled.”

In her essay Nancy gracefully articulated her perception of her situation and chooses to label her as “Crippled”. The struggles that she goes through to in a day to day bases, for example when she starts off the essay by describing her experience in a bathroom stall and how she laughs at her own situation. She insightfully defines her being crippled in the way she pursues and interacts with the world. As I defined the word in a sense of being incompetent in day to day societal procedures which is exactly proven in the essay. She is slow and struggles in her day to rituals and she accepts it.

Perhaps she uses the word “cripple” to show that her conditions is more severe for it to be described as “handicapped” or “disabled.” The rhetorical feature she used was tone; it showed that she has already accepted