"Crippled"
In Nancy Mair’s essay about being crippled, she uses rhetorical features such as tone, diction, and word choice to express her feelings towards her disability. These features also allow Mair to achieve her purpose of providing insight on her life as a “cripple”, while offering and explanation of the word.
Throughout Mair’s essay, she sets a certain tone of seriousness. Her seriousness, however, can be some what viewed as harshness to a certain level. As the reader explores the essay they would notice that she exhibits a variety of shifts in tone, reflecting the shifts in her feelings towards being a cripple. She begins the essay with “I am a cripple. I choose this word to name me.” (L.1). By starting the essay of with this statement, Mair already sets a serious and straight forward tone by her choice of words. In LL. 15-20, Mair explains views on the word cripple. Here her tone is more happy and upbeat, as she describes how she thinks the word is......

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Title: Crippled
Approximate Word Count: 964
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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