Assignment 2: Humorous narrative essays

Comparing " My Inner Shrimp" and " A plague of tics", I think the first one is better. In "My Inner Shrimp" Gary wrote his real experience to express his emotion of being a "shrimp". After I finished reading Gary's essay, I am able to feel his harrowing feeling, and understand his meaning that was expressed by a humorous way. What's more, I admire the details that Gary focused on---these details gave us an atmosphere to imagine what his feeling was.

In the most parts of " My Inner shrimp" Gary described his " shrimp time". He tries his best to be a tall boy or at least a normal height boy instead of being a midget, for instance, he slept on his back and did floor exercise (page 2). All the things he did just because he expected to overcome his dilemma--- shorter than others. The first time he recognized his problem was a contingent in an afternoon. Gary suddenly recognized the building was so high and glorious but he was short. And then he met another depressed thing that made him upset and a little bit angry. He wrote some dialog about the " hurt woman". By his description I feel that he really did not like the woman in the sales office, because he did not add some title for that woman---just called her " she" (page 2)... All these experience were calamities for Gary. From the description before we can know that the humorous way is that he said some funny comparisons instead of pessimistic words, such as shrimp and midget. 

Even though others taunted him, he still never gave up---this is also his humorous way, I think. Also we can learn some spirit from what he did. Actually, Gary had a complicated emotion--- on one hand he achieved his goal ( to be tall), on another hand he still had harrowing feeling about his life before. No matter how terrible the situation is, we could overcome it---this is the principle I learned from " My Inner Shrimp".

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