Nancy Mairs On Being A Cripple Summary

Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple” was an interesting article. The word choices she has used plays an important role in her article. Her article is very detailed oriented and used different examples to explain her situation about being a cripple. Mairs had no excuse about her situation even after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and she continues to be the best at her job of parenting and wife. She had really emphasized her struggles that she went through and how she had coped with the fact that her life will never be the same. This article can turn out to be an inspiring article for people who are suffering from multiple sclerosis or other disabilities. Mairs begins her introduction with a hilarious event which is an attention grabbing for a reader. Then she

As other women were older then her so, she looked at them as her role models. It’s shows that she uses halves as her outline, where she is focused on her turning points of her life and how it changed her life. And simply just end her story. In addition, she uses the word choices such as “ideal” and “cripple”. She used the phrase “ideal” to describe about perfect women and compared them with her life and then second phrase is “cripple” which is a replacement for “handicapped” or “disabled” as she preferred to call herself. Maria stated, “she said, “I am a cripple. I chose this word to name me. I chose from among several possibilities, the most common of which are ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled.’ I made the choice a number of years ago, without thinking, unaware of my motives for doing so. Even now, I’m not sure what those motives are, but I recognize that they are complex and not entirely flattering" (143). Furthermore, overall her tone of the article was positive and I like the way she begins her essay and grab reader’s attention with a joke and I think it’s a creative way to introduce the main idea of the