Cripple

The Cripple of Inishmaan, a play that’ll leave one wondering how someone could be so rude and against those who have disabilities. The play takes place in the Island of Inishmaan, Ireland which is a rural community, where everyone knows everyone’s business. Inishmaan is a very small town, more tight knit versus an urban community which is more diverse. Furthermore, Bill who is a main character is known as, “Cripple Billy,” he has a limp on his one side, where when he starts to walk he drags that

in “I Am a Cripple” Disabled. Disabled is a word commonly defined as being physically or mentally impaired, injured, or incapacitated (dictionary.com). There's a stigma over the word disabled with its negative connotation. Nancy Mairs, author of “I Am a Cripple, dislikes this word because she thinks that the English language incorporates too many euphemism in our speech. Mairs wants people to use more straightforward language, even if it might be offensive to others. In “ I Am a Cripple”, Mairs eloprates

I AM a Cripple When my older sister, Molly, was ten years old, she was a temporary cripple. Molly went through a pretty big surgery that would stop her from tripping over her pigeon toed legs. While living a couple months in her wheelchair, an uncle of ours came to visit. His warm welcome to my sister was pushing her into a corner, locking her wheelchair, and calling her a windowlicker. Thankfully, my sister has tough skin. She took what others would find scarring, all as a joke. It is hard not

Nancy Mairs - Crippled and Strong      Throughout this passage Nancy Mairs uses the word cripple to describe who she is and the beliefs of her condition. She does this by describing her condition in a few different ways; the opinion of others and the opinion of herself. As anyone should she decides what her title as a person should be and she doesn’t listen or care for anyone’s opinion outside of her own. Her tone is very straightforward throughout the passage. Mairs describes her condition and

began to be skeptical that “they were faking. Tugging at the fringes of [her] consciousness always is the terror that people are kind to [her] only because [she is] a cripple” (Mairs 265). She also added that she “always suspected them of...professing fondness while silently putting up with [her] because of the way [that she was]. A cripple, [she has] been a little cracked ever since” (Mairs 266). Sometimes I wondered if my relatives and friends pitied me for having Scoliosis. My friends and relatives

In the passage, Nancy Mairs presents herself as an empowered, intelligent, and strong cripple. The first line is “I am a cripple” which is pretty straightforward, and the matter-of-fact tone that it is stated in stays pretty consistent throughout the entire passage. Mairs upfront attitude from the start convinces the reader that she is unafraid to identify herself however she wants. Later she states that she refuses to “pretend that the only differences between you and me are the various ordinary

they are neutral and aren’t disrespectful. For example, in the article On Being a Cripple Nancy Mairs says, “People crippled or not wince at the word ‘cripple’ as they do not at ‘handicapped’ or ‘disabled’ I want them to see me as a tough customer... ‘Disabled’ by contrast, suggests and incapacity, physical or mental... I would never refer to another person as a cripple” (Mairs 233). When people use the world cripple they “wince” because of the negative connotation the word

1. “Why Don’t We Complain” Question 2 Employing simple anecdotes, William F. Buckley argues in his essay “Why Don’t We Complain”, that as people continue to ignore rudimentary issues, their passivity is transferring into political indifference. Buckley begins with a simple story of how “train temperatures in the dead of the winter… climb up to 85 degrees without complaint” and how “For generations, Americans who were too hot, or too cold, got up and did something about it”. Although there were many

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

On Being a Cripple Nancy Mairs is the writer of an inspiring book ‘On Being a Cripple'; the essay contains a journey of Mairs. The autobiography stars in a very convincing manner whereby she owns the word "cripple" and also identifying herself with the condition. The essay goes on to narrate how the author has suffered through her life with multiple sclerosis, diagnosis and lifelong effects of the conditions. Mairs convinces her reader how accepting the status of being cripple has helped develop