Assignment2
While reading Gary Trudeau's My Inner Shrimp and David Sedaris's a Plague of Tics, they both make me belly laugh. These two narratives both use humor to describe the strange experience in their childhood, their style of writing are both well,but by contrast, I prefer David Sedaris's a Plague of Tics more.
Gary Trudeau's My Inner Shrimp is good,but the reason I choose a Plague of Tics is better is that a Plague of Tics's length of a piece of writing is longer than My Inner Shrimp , so it inculd more detail describations, not only this, but also clean language, writing free and easy, delicate thoughts,My Inner Shrimp can't match all these details with a Plague of Tics.
The narrative a Plague of Tics depicts during the author's growing up,the peculiar habbit he has. And the author describe them all in detail,like shaked his chair in class,licked the light's power switch,touched his eyeball to harm himself,used his onse to press the window,made a sound like "En" , "Aa",and each time when his teacher wanted to make a home visiting ,the teacher would had a "good time" to drank with his mother."I'm assuming you weren't raised by animals.Is she blind,your mother? Can she se the way you behave, or do you reserve your antics exclusively for Miss chestnut?"[p.3] this is a really good proof of what he done in class and his mother's response of his bad behavior. When he went to university,he even asked his roomate to go to his girlfriend, so that it left himself alone in the dorm,he can do all his eccentricities.After that he was found of smoking and gave up all these eccentricities.
later reading the passage,it may remind you some bad behavior that you have in your childhood or even now, and you think about it don't you think it is so interesting?