On Being A Crippled, By Nancy Mairs

The author of the essay “On Being a Cripple”, Nancy Mairs, is a cripple and lives a well off life even though she is a cripple. While most people would develop an essay on why their life may suck being a cripple, Mairs doesn’t use her multiple sclerosis as an excuse for living a bad life yet embraces it in her writings and her life in general such as the opening paragraph where she describes her stall affairs. Mairs uses pathos in her essay to argue that life as a cripple is not particularly bad or good but being able to understand who you are as a cripple will make you better off in the end. First off Mairs is not at all offended and even embraces using the word, “cripple”, because she doesn’t care of the stereotypical informality of the word,

Many people these days take their health and body for granted. Imagine losing the ability to walk suddenly due to an accident or a disease. This is exactly what had happened to Nancy Mairs, author of the essay “On Being a Cripple.” She herself had lost her ability to walk normally when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis or MS, a chronic disease that attacks the central nervous system. Her essay talks about her life and dealing with MS. The purpose of the essay is to show how being crippled affects your life and how to stay positive and deal with it.

When undermined by an incurable disease, it’s difficult to think positively. Especially with multiple sclerosis, where life adjustments - including changes to communication, daily routines, even basic bodily functions - are necessary, it’s likely to approach situations hopelessly. However, essayist Nancy Mairs provides her own detailed anecdote on accepting these lifelong impairments. In her essay, “On Being a Cripple,” Mairs develops her attitude toward her condition through multiple accounts of asyndetons, figurative language, and her personal experience.

Nancy Mairs is the author of “On Being A Cripple”. The author and I have a lot of traits in common one of which I will focus in on is STRONG. Mairs writes her essay about her crippled ways and accepts who she is. In the essay the author states how the word cripple once had a positive meaning to it and now has changed over the years to a insult people wince when they hear it. But for her, she embraces it ““Cripple” seems to me a clean word, straightforward and precise. It has an honorable history, having made its first appearance in the Lindisfarne Gospel in the tenth century. As a lover of words, I like the accuracy with which it describes my condition: I have lost the full use of my limbs. “Disabled,” by contrast, suggests any incapacity,

In the essay On Being a Cripple, by Nancy Mairs, she has some control over aspects of her life. In the essay she writes about how her disease MS has controlled parts of her life, how MS has negative side effects to her, and how she has control about what she wants to be labeled as.

In the essay “On Being a Cripple”, Nancy Mairs shows us a class of two subcultures: being a parent and being disabled. Looking at the intersection between these culture and identities will show us important facets of disability that all people should understand. Throughout the essay Mairs explains the effects Multiple sclerosis and how it negatively and positively affects her life and the lives of her gracious family.

On her essay entitled ‘’On Being a Cripple, the author Nancy Mairs uses her confident tone and seductive ways of telling details to tell her own story as a person who experienced both conditions of being a healthy attractive woman who becomes over the years someone who depends on a wheel chair in order to help her moving yet independent in her mind accepting her situation and taking advantage of every new day with joy and satisfaction. Mairs Starts her essay with an expressive epigraph that gives the reader a hint about the strong piece of writing that he is about to read. Associating the tittle to Louise Bogan’s quote is a cleaver trigger to hook the reader’s attention, too. The writer, who lives the experience of being crippled for the

On ‘’Being a Cripple ‘’, Mairs usage of bold word choices about being a cripple allows the readers to see Mairs viewpoint of her disability. The modern definition of swagger is someone who walks or behaves in a very confident manner, Mairs comments that ‘’ As a cripple, I swagger ‘’ meaning Mairs is very confident and can handle situations (Mairs 268). Even though Mairs literally can’t swagger as she suggests, Mairs is referring to how she carries herself with confidence as a person with a disability. The way Mairs handles her MS is in a very humane and unapologetic type of way. Mairs understands that even though ‘’society is not ready to accept crippledness than to accept death, war, sweat, or wrinkles’’, Mairs will not allow her disease

The writer of “On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs, describes her life as difficult, but not entirely worth the cure. The writer struggles with multiple sclerosis, a chronic degenerative disease of the central nervous system, in which had weakened the left side of her body into wearing a cane. She experiences society pressures, false interactions, and many hard situations of having a body that hardly works. However, she carefully names herself as a “cripple”, and remains proud with being just that. The author never had any control over receiving this disease, however she had enough control in order to keep living with it.

How would people act or feel if their body is slowly weakening? Nancy Mairs, The author in the story “On Being A Cripple” shows that being a cripple does not make you different than anyone else. She also shows the reader that discriminating yourself will not just make it worse but it will be a disaster. To her she is a normal person but to others they see a “disabled” or “handicapped”.By using her experience on being a cripple, Mairs effectively draws the audience into her argument and shows them the good and the bad side of her condition. She uses many strategies that will make it easy for the readers to understand her essay. Mairs uses vivid descriptions, experience and her emotion to describe her life as

Mairs in the reading “On Being a Cripple”, talks about her multiple sclerosis that she discovered at the age of twenty eight, however she does not want to gain sympathies from the other people, instead she starts calling herself as a “cripple” and this she states in her reading as “a cripple. She wants society to "wince". Mairs believes that the people in the society have been brainwashed and therefore they end up having their own judgment and findings. She believes she is strong enough to face the bitter reality of her condition and due to this he does not want anyone to feel sorry for her condition of multiple sclerosis. She portrays herself as a tough soul and believes that it is her destiny that she is created in such a way. She further

The words used “On being a Cripple” reflects the way she sees herself and also the way she shows herself to the world. Being a cripple or being called a Cripple, has an odd distinction, of being clean. Further than being clean, as if nothing had change on her, now that she has lost use of her limbs. The tumor precisely is making her weaker, but is not seriously attacking her sense of humor from where she called, herself a cripple. Her calling her own self a name such as Cripple, or crippled help her overcome what she may hear from anyone else.

In the short passage “Being a Crippled,” Nancy Mairs presents herself as a”crippled.” she explains the positives and negatives about being crippled through the use of diction, tone and irony.

Writer, Nancy Mairs, in her essay, “Disability, “she portrays that there is no representation for people with disabilities in media, “especially television” (par 1). She supports this claim by exemplifying that the one time she saw a women with multiple sclerosis it was on a “medical drama” (par 2) that had romanticized the disability, and how that is not the type of representation that people with disabilities deserve since the doctor from the television drama “uses his medical power to strip” the woman from her independence. Mairs’ purpose is to announce to the public that people with disabilities are still people and they do normal people stuff like “talk on the telephone” or “order pizza” (par 4) in order to claim that people with disabilities

Kathie Snow thinks the greatest Paraplegic heroes who struggle to become normal again. Nor are they retarded, autistic, blind, deaf learning, because a person who is impaired, one of their life's major functions, some people believe that the person is a second-class citizen. However, most people with disabilities have skills, knowledges that make the impaired in the work place. In fact, people with quadriplegic can drive cars and have children. Disability diagnoses are, unfortunately used to define a person’s value and potential, and low expectations and a dismal future are the predicted norm, with the best of intentions, we work on people's bodies and brains while paying scant attention to their hearts and minds. What the author means