"a plague of tics" is more successfully accomplished to attract readers. This essay is focused on the author's recovery from hi bad and very strange habit, such as licking switches, rolling his eyes and rocking. What he wanted to tell readers is those strange habit from childhood can be changed by time or new environment. The author says that many teachers visited his house to make him stop his strange behavior but all of them failed. His habit was fixed after he entered a university. He met new environment there. He had a roommate who disturbed his rocking and he met drugs, smoking and drinking which they made his strange habit boring.
The author succeed to attract readers by using more humorous expression than "my inner shrimp".Especially, he use "flashback and metaphors" efficiently. For instance, "...thinking of what an odd woman she was, my third-grade teacher, miss Chestnut. Why come here and lick my switches when she never used the one she had? May be she was drunk." (from page 6) is flashback of page 4 "Would you like me to come over to your house and put my tongue on your light switches?" I like this humor the best. In addition, he uses a lot of metaphors. For example, page 7 "...narrowing her eyes much like a cat catching sight of a squirrel." is a good metaphoric expression. These two descriptions makes this story more fascinating than "My inner shrimp".
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