List ten of sedaris tics or habits and try to establish some general rules that make them tics and not more sociallh acceptable repeated motions or habits
Sedaris tics and habits are outragously not socially acceptable. Ten of sadarises tics and habits include licking, pressing, wiping, against many not okay objects inside of house, outside of his house, at school. Sadaris also has a uncontrollable need to constantly satisfy thes habits throughout his young life. Sadaris also has a consistant bad habit that goes all throughout to his college years of rocking in his bed and listening to his music. The objects sadari licks throughout his young life as in elementary school include licking light switches, mailboxes, leaves, grass, lightbulbs, outside poles, and licking corners of a metal desk. Other insane tics are touching forehead with shoe or heel, touching windshield with nose, touching desk eight times with nose, and touching the doorknob seven times with each elbow. The habits and or tics that can be considered more or less socially acceptable is the rocking in bed with music, stabbing an outlet with a butter knife and getting up from desk twenty eight times. These are more socially acceptable to my opinion because they are not ridiculous. Typically children during his age, when asked or told not to do something it makes them want to do it more. So the stabbing an outlet with a butter knife can be socially accepted. Also at the age of 5-12 or during elementary school kids have a lot of energy, so sitting still or just sitting typically is asking too much. The rocking in bed while listening to music may just be how he responds to the music he is listening to.
2What are some tics and habits that you have? Are they more socially acceptable than Sedaris? Why do you think that is?
The tics and habits that I have include messing with my hair, spending money on random stuff, cleaning up around the house, drinking lots of water, biting my nails, cleaning my shoes, and buying louis pizza. My habits are more socially acceptable than sedaris. My habits are because compared to licking everything, my habits should be more socially accetable. I think that my habits are more socially acceptable because they have a norm. For instance biting nails is a habit that you can see on daily basis. I think a couple of my habits can be socially unacceptable because less people do it. An example of this would include buying louis pizza. Im not completely sure of this but I assume theirs not a wole lot of people out their who order louis pizza and chezybread like I do. Some of my habits may not actually be habits. These habits or tics are cleaning my shoes, cleaning my apartment, and drinking lots of water. These would be considered not a habit unless I do these habits too much.
3What do you think the point of the essay is to describe and inform the readers Sedaris tics and habits. Also I think the writers point was to describe and inform the readers of his parents, where he lives and the habits in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. The entire story was about his tics and habits. The name of the story was a plaque of tics. So you can allready assume that the story has to do something with tics. Some examples are on page 8 which says, "It was a short distance from the school to our rented house, no more than six hundred and thirty-seven steps, and on a good day I could make the trip in an pausing every few feet to tongue a mailbox or touch whichever single leaf or blade of grass demanded my attention." When the writer was describing where he lived and where he was living previously, and was describing on page 9 of a plague of tics. The writing says, "I didnt remember things being this way back north. Our family had been transferred from Endicott, New York to Raleigh, North Caralina." For when Sedaris was in elemantary school his habits and tics were mostly licking things. Sedaris and his teacher had a conversation about his licking of the light switch." The purpose of the writing was and inform the readers of Sedaris habits and tics.
Jacob --
ReplyDeleteExcellent work here. (You're not the only person who buys way too much Louie's pizza and cheesy bread, by the way ...)
Your discussion in the third paragraph is especially good. Keep in mind, though, that there is a difference between a topic and a point (or thesis). The topic of the essay is a kid dealing with tics. The point, though, relates more to how the people in his life treat him, how they have tics too, and how the difference between a socially acceptable or unacceptable tic is how other people view it, not the thing itself.
I look forward to reading more. Thanks!
Nick