Short Summary Of Plague By David Sedaris

David Sedaris approaches to his readers by recounting his painful past. Even though it was hard for him to remember and describe a reality of a disease, obsessive-compulsive disease as known as OCD. According to the World Health Organization, OCD is a disease that accounts for about one in forty adults and one in every hundred children in the United States. Even though it must be extremely painful for him to remember about his “old day” experienced with OCD but he still wants to share his experience. Generally, his first approach to readers is “A Plague of Tics” which makes us really curious about it because we know that it is a disease as mentioned as “Plague” and also it is repetitively as “Tics”. It is surprising that his story does not

The author basically stated that not all of his repetitive tasks are mandatory because of OCD, it is because of what he would like to do. He states, “On the afternoon that Miss Chestnut arrived for her visit, I was in my bedroom, rocking. Unlike the obsessive counting and touching, rocking was not a mandatory duty but a voluntary and highly pleasurable exercise. It was my hobby, and there was nothing else I would rather do.” (364). At this point, David Sedaris reminds us that is not every time he does something repeatedly, that it is directly related to OCD. Once again he wants us to understand that don’t generalize a person that has OCD with every of their

He quoted a conversation between his father and him, “Following Miss Chestnut’s visit, my father attempted to cure me with a series of threats. “You touch your nose to that wind-shield one more time and I’ll guarantee you’ll wish you hadn’t,” (366). This quote is very special and can be considered somewhat as one of a major point of an essay because it contains a lot of images. Some of an image that contains an in-depth meaning that are a father who is very frustrated and feeling hopeless when he couldn’t do anything better for his child other than trying to tell him to stop it even though he knows it wouldn’t work in the first place, a second image is that David Sedaris has to deal with OCD along with his actions and it is very painful because he could not control it and he knows it annoys other people and sometimes himself too. This point proves that a person who has OCD will eventually annoy and sink other’s person’s mood because they can’t stop, other people understand it but they all can’t cure it; they just want to try as many things as possible as they continue to hope that one day the disease will stop