Assignment 2: Humorous Narrative Essays

"Plague of Tics" (David Sedaris) is a great story.
I really like “Plague of Tics” because David Sedaris accomplishes his goals better than Gary Trudeau. He gives us more detail description and he know how to describes humorous details, the obsessive compulsive behavior that plagued his life from grade school into college. He had strange tics and that’s why sometimes this is funny but in the same time it’s sad and painful to read. His tics are like “licking every light switch encountered”, “six hundred and thirty-seven steps on the way home from school”, I would touch the front door seven times with each elbow”, “kissing the fourth, eighth, and twelfth carpeted stair” and much more.
It’s painful when you know that every year it’s the same, every year a teacher came at your house to talk with your mother about your behavior. It’s hard to be mother in this case. His mother tries to hide his behavior, and every year when a teacher comes home, she try to be like 2 “best friends”. He listen the conversation between his mother and Miss Chestnut and when they talk about his behavior he wants to do something else, pg 7 “I tried rocking in bed, but sound of laughter drew me to the top of the landing, where from my vantage point behind an oversized wardrobe box, I watched the two women discuss my behavior.”
The protagonist was very young but still had a goal and I think in time he will be better .