Analysis Of Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris

"Me Talk Pretty One Day" is a humorous memoir by David Sedaris. In this article, he is talking about a time in his life when he tried something new: learning French. It doesn't matter how old you are or what you have done you can always learn new things. You just have to overcome the fear associated with trying something new. Even though, you may not be learning it all from a textbook, you can learn from personal experience. Sedaris states he thought his fears would have disappeared instead they have multiplied with age. And on his first day of class as he is waiting on his turn to answer the simple questions from the harsh teacher he is fearful of how she is going to react to his response. But Sedaris recognizes he is not alone

in how he is feeling, he has his classmates, they are right there with him. And in this article, that is why he uses humor is to help ease that fear.
Sedaris moved to Paris to learn French. On his first day of class he showed up early to observe the other students. They were young, well-dressed and attractive unlike him a man in his forties, he was intimidated “feeling not unlike Pa Kettle trapped backstage after a fashion show.” (paragraph 2) They all had an air of confidence that added to that discomfort. The teacher rudely belittled and was verbally and physically abusive. She was harsh with everyone in the class. When it was his turn to answer the questions, he expressed an uncomplicated list of likes and dislikes. Although, he did mispronounce and give wrong gender to inanimate objects. You would have thought Sedaris’s mistakes was a capital crime against France by her reaction. “Were you always this palicmkrexjx? She asked. “Even a fiuscrzsws tociwegixp knows that a typewriter is feminine.” (paragraph 17)
The article was written for anyone who ever went back to school and felt like an outsider. The challenges of this essay is letting the audience know that fear is a natural. That is why we laugh and joke at the most inopportune time. Just be yourself, take a deep breath, keep your cool and keep one foot in front of the other and you’re going to get to your goal.
The goal is to let the audience know that if they are fearful due to cost, time constraints, or they won't learn anything new they should write a pros and cons list. If it the fear of cost they can talk to their employer to see if they have a reimbursement program for schooling.
Sedaris was fearful because he knew he would be expected to perform and was not all that confident in the little bit of French he learned in New York.

He was scared, stating "I am now twice a frightened as I was when, at the age of twenty, I allowed a failed nursing student to inject me with a horse tranquilizer, and eight time more anxious than I was the day my kindergarten teacher pried my fingers off my mother's ankle and led me screaming toward my desk."
Getting feedback is very helpful. It can make you a better writer, it helps you to determine that you understand the assignment and to make sure you know what you’re talking about. With the feedback that was given to you in the original paper you can implement in your final piece by following through with feedback for example the feedback states that you have grammatical errors correct those, margins are out of place fix it, etc.
When doing a revision, I like to print out a hard copy and re-read it and if it makes sense to me I will have several members of my family or my friends read it. They always seem to help because they are unaware of what I am writing about, so they will ask questions and I can always add more into the paper to make the audience aware of what is my

goal.