Assignment 2 : Humorous Narrative Essays

For these two stories of " My inner Shrimp " and " Plague of tics ", I think most of us would prefer the latter because of David Sedaris does use a lot of interesting words in his article, but to be quite honest in my mind, I'd prefer Gary Trudeau's one.



Different from the other one, " My inner Shrimp " is really simple which I think could make the reader grasp his main idea easily and quickly. Gary's words seem so true and honest to me. I can get the same feeling with him all time reading. I could feel the way how he has "the soul of a shrimp" even from his " lofty perch of something over six feet"( Pg. 1). When he went hunting for a new office which I consider as the most interesting part of this article, he first described as " When I was ushered into the model unit, my pulse quickened: the soaring, twenty-two-foot living room walls were gloriously aglow with the remains of the day." (Pg.2) Right after this, he gave us a big shock. "I stayed ducked: the room was a little more than six feet in height." " While my head technically cleared the ceilling, the effect was excruciatingly oppressive."(Pg.2) I really appreciate this dramatically change.

Then he leads us to revisiting his " perilous past" with him. He writes about how he was treated because of his really short height. He was " drafted into a contingent of students ignominiously dubbed the ' Midgets'."(Pg.2) Even after that period he grew tall he still felt " the impact of being literally looked down on, of being made to feel small, is forever."(Pg.2) I do appreciate his inner-feeling description of this part.