assignment 2:Humorous narrative essays

Comparing two narrative essays, My inner shrimp and A plague of tics, I think that David Sedaris accomplishes his goals better than Gary Trudeau. Gary grew physically, however, there was still a shrimp in his heart. On the other hand, David changed himself by heart even though he still retained some tics.
At the beginning, David was such a problem child. He was always doing strange things, like licking light switch, tapping himself with shoe, touching whichever single leaf or blade of glass, kissing steps and newspaper. What’s worse, from page 6 he said,” it never failed to amaze me that people might notice these things. Because my action were so intensely private, I had always assumed they were somehow invisible.” Miss chestnuts’ house visiting did not help to stop this strange behavior.
Later on, David changed in college, as his father said on page 11,” College is the best thing that can happened to you.” He successfully discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking. What’s more, David sometime attempted to revisit his former tics and habits with the help from his sister and some people. As a matter of fact, he did. Form page 12 ,when he press his nose against the doorknob or roll his eyes to achieve that once-satisfying ache, his sisters’ words would occur to his mind,” remember when you used to roll you eyes?’’’’ remember the time you shook your head so hard, your glasses fell into the barbeque pit?” and soon David lost interest because the exercise lacks of its old urgency.
David Sedaris was changing. His goal was to revisit his former tics and bad habit, and he tried very hard to achieve this goal. We know, he was just one step far from his goal and he just need more time.