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Summary Of On Stuttering By Edward Hoagland

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“On Stuttering” by Edward Hoagland

This personal piece written by Edward Hoagland reflects on his past experiences of living with a stutter. It’s significant that the way Hoagland writes is so complex yet precise and to the point. As he explains, having a stutter is like, “trying to run with loops of rope around your feet”(153). Yet his word choice and sentence structure contradicts that and he is clearly able to explain his point. I also enjoyed his metaphor in comparison to football in paragraph 4. After exploring the metaphor fully, I was able to understand many of the references he tried creating. For example I understood what his “position” was and how “tacklers” played a big part in his struggle of stuttering. At the heart of it, it’s
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