Assignment 2: Humorous Narrative Essays

For Gary Trudeau’s "My Inner Shrimp" and David Sedaris’s "Plague of Tics" these two humorous narrative essays, I think that “A Plague of Tics” is better than another one. It has more minute description. "A Plague of Tics" use humor to describe how he got different from his childhood.
When David was a little boy, he has a lot of problems. He likes to do something different. in early, he like to lick the light switches, to press his nose against the windshield of a car, to use shoe to hit his head just because he “heard” his shoe whispered, and so on. Also, he has some strong opinion, for example, the sentences he said in page 7, “Rocking was not a mandatory duty bit a voluntary and highly pleasurable exercise. It was my hobby, and there was noting else I would rather do.” Then he get some other "habits",such as making noise. In page 9,"Eeeeeeee--ummmmmmm--mmm-ahhhh-ahhh-meeeeeeee" But those “habits” broke when he went to the college. he begain to do some other thing, like "discovered drugs, dringking, and smoking."In page 11, so he change some earlier habits, Also in page 11“For some reason, my nervous habits faded about the same time I took up with cigarette. Maybe it was coincidental or perhaps the tics retreated in the face of an adversary that, despite its health risks, is much more socially acceptable than crying out in tiny voices. ” Although smoking is not good, but his family members think those were better than the thing that he like to do in his childhoods. From that time, he changes a lot. He still have some bad habits, but he knows his behavior is not good. He wants change them ang make hinself better. Just like the ending of the story in page 12, " 'sorry, folks,' " I’d say, pressing my against the surface of my ticket booth. 'But I’ve got other duties.' " In this story, David Sedaris use homour from the begining to the ending, the way he depict how he changed is very meticulous, so I like this essay.