1. Write a short summary of David Sedaris’ essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day in about 125 words.
The short story of David Sedaris’ essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells us about when he as an 41 year old man went to school in Paris, after only having a month’s course in French, while staying in New York. At his first day in school he meets his teacher whom we quickly learn has a big attitude, with a sharp tongue. In the essay he describes how the teacher violently discriminates the students from his class. And how she rips him from all kind of confidence, and makes him stop talking French, in fear for saying something wrong, and get scolded by his teacher because of it.
2. Write an analytical essay (700 – 900 words) about the text. Your essay must focus on Sedaris’ experiences and his attitude to learning foreign languages. Include a brief discussion of the relationship between language and identity.
In the essay, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” written by David Sedaris, we get introduced to al lot of people like the two polish girls both named Anna, and Carlos from argentine. And other fellow students of the narrator. But the characters most important in the story is the narrator, but also the teacher. the way the teacher is described to us, from the narrator's perspective, gives us an understanding of her being an mean teacher who frightens her own students into silent. you could say she is the bad guy (girl) of the story, which is a common style of writing. giving a story a bad person gives life and drama to it. whilst giving the main character a goal to overcome that person. like in the story when he in the end is able to almost talk back at her, understood as the good overcoming of the bad.
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