# 3 Tone and Purpose of "Disability"

Disability, by Nancy Mairs, described how Nancy felt about people with disability that she thought there the public should better understand these people and know their stories. The tone of the passage is rather melancholy that she described how people are mistreated or treated differently due to their disability. For example, she narrated an occasion that a local advertiser refused to let disable people advertising commercial product because it would discourage sells. Nancy felt pretty sad yet perplex that the real reason disabled people aren’t in the advertisement is not because people would think products are specially made for disabled but people would associate disability with ordinary life. Yet she was optimistic that everything would turn out right if the public were able to understand and treated disabled naturally into our common scene of daily life. She believed that disabled people were suffering because they felt isolated and discouraged for being different from others. However, through public awareness and integration of disabled into our common scene of daily lives, we would eventually treated disabled equally.

As said earlier in the passage, the main purpose of the passage is to encourage the public or advertiser to integrate the images of disabled into our common scenes of our ordinary lives. By seeing these people daily in our lives, we would eventually get used to them and would no longer seem them as disabled and treated them as a different category of individuals. When people have disabilities, they began to not only feel the sense of isolation but also throw away their any sense of existence that they would lose their self- confidence. People began to self-alienating themselves and draw them into a virtuous cycle of depression that they would just fall deeper into the depth of disparity. She also wanted to make people to accept disability more easily psychologically if they were to get one in the future. If people are used to seeing disabled and realized that one can still live an ordinary life with it, people are able to associate it as normal characteristic, one that complicates people physically but wouldn’t take away our human existence. Therefore, people would be more confidence and optimistic that there are still hopes in the future.