How Does Mairs Use Figurative In On Being A Cripple

In the description of “on being a cripple”, the author Mairs uses descriptive and figurative diction to give the reader a picture of disabled women and how they feel towards the disease. Mairs described as, “My shoulders droop and my pelvis thrusts forward as I try to balance myself upright, throwing my frame into a bony S” gives the feeling of uncomfortable and difficult movement. The description “shoulder droop” indicates her weakness; to show she’s no longer strong. Also, the description of “throwing myself into bony S” gives the idea that she can’t balance herself. The “S” is a curvy letter, so she’s just like an S but with bones. Furthermore, Mairs’s uses figurative to describe herself, “I begin to sound like Pollyanna”, she’s comparing
herself to a Disney character. Pollyanna a girl who was a cheerful, optimistic person. Mairs’s used “Pollyanna” to describe how she’s dealing with her disease MS, she’s being positive about her disease. She still hates her disease but she has to see it as the reality of her life. Finally, Mairs closes up the essay with her feeling of MS, “I may be frustrated, maddened, depressed by the incurability of my disease, but I'm not diminished by it.” Those are negative words she used are the way she feels towards how she feels with her disease, but she’s not having a problem with it. The words, “maddened”, “frustrated” and “depressed” are descriptive words of despondency person.