Assignment 2: Humorous narrative essays

Well, when I done with A Plague of Tics, I had to say both My Inner Shrimp and A plague of tics are very good at using humor to describe their emotion and feeling when they have a special issue and the authors use excellent details to print the image that they want to show the reader. Imagine that, if you have the same experience with the author Garry Trudeau for My Inner Shrimp, I am pretty sure you will understand why Trudeau felt harrowing for his height though he over six feet tall right now better. To be honest, I had the exactly same experience with Trudeau when I was in middle school. That’s is the major reason I think Trudeau is better for using humor to depict how he has outgrown an issue from his childhood, because I can completely understand his excruciating feeling to be a ‘shrimp’.

Let’s see, when he humorously says that “Of course what we couldn’t have known was that he and my mother already had. They had given me a delayed developmental timetable… I was, in the apace of a few months, reborn- and I made the most of it. (Page 2) ” From this I can strongly feel how much Trudeau wants to overcome the ‘shrimp’ problem. Yes! He tried everything that can let he get out of the name “midget”, he hanging from door frames, sleeping on his back, and doing floor exercises.

Later on, when he grows up and over six feet tall, he felt everything that happened when he was the midget was just a kind of “process”, and that always happens, especially when you are in adolescent and you have a fragile self-esteem. But it will make you to consider that sort of funny how you did in that “shrimp time”. It is really funny when he says that in the end, “Sometimes I think I’d like to return to a high-school reunion to surprise my classmates. Not that they didn’t know me when I finally started catching up. They did, but I doubt they’d remember. Adolescent hierarchies have a way of enduring; I’m sure I am still recalled as the midget I myself have never really left behind (page 2)”. I can tell how happy it is when he catching up, he even wants to show to his classmates that he is not a midget any more.

With no doubt, Trudeau is really good at using humorous to depict his emotions and let reader understand his feeling through his funny story and the language with full of drollness. And I like the way he use in last paragraph, it is droll! “Of course, if I’m going to show up, it’ll have to be soon. I’m start to shrink” Anyway, I think Trudeau is better than Sedaris.