The article, “Disability”, written by Nancy Mairs and later published in the New York Times is a short story on how Nancy believes that she, and many other like her, are not represented fairly to the world through the eyes of the media. Mairs is a forty-three year old woman with multiple sclerosis who has been continually searching media for others like her, but has yet to find a match. Through the use of pathos and repetition Mairs successfully argues that the media does not accurately recognize people like her with disabilities. Mairs uses repetition in her article alongside pathos in order to get her point across. While talking about how although her disability takes up a large part of her life, it does not consume it all she states, “I menstruate, so I have to buy tampons. I worry about smoker’s breath, so I buy mouthwash. I smear my wrinkling skin with lotions. I …show more content…
I drive a car, talk on the telephone, get runs in my pantyhose, eat pizza.” This exemplifies the use of repetition by using the word I then followed by an action that most people perform on a daily basis therefore it resonates in one's mind how many things she does that is just like them. By using repetition to get her point across that she is not that different than everyone else, she successfully argues that its not fair people like her are not accurately represented. Another time the author uses the rhetorical device of repletion is when she is talking about how when she asked the media why they don’t use people like her in their commercials. They responded by saying they don’t want people to