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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris

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Imagine moving to a different country without speaking the language spoken there fluently. Without being able to fully understand other people, it makes it impossible to feel comfortable. In Me Talk Pretty One Day, Sedaris wants his audience to realize that learning a language doesn’t happen with a couple classes. Learning a language takes time, and hunger of wanting to learn it. Him moving to France to learn French, was a drastic change not many would take. After all the humiliations and hard work he came out of that class with more knowledge. Sedaris indicates that in order to really succeed in anything one must feel like a failure at times through Sedaris’ use of style, generalization, emotional examples, and intended audience indicates …show more content…

Visiting a new country without speaking the language only left him one choice, and that was to stereotype the people around him. Sedaris’ personal story had a distinctive style to it. He mentioned all the ways he failed and at the end his definition of success wasn’t what people expected it to be. He was however amusing throughout the story, using funny words to describe events. Sedaris never seemed to only have one type of audience. His story can be for those learning a new language just like him, and struggling with it. It also could be for students, professors, and anyone wanting to achieve a goal. His emotional examples helped the readers feel exactly what he was going through. It made the story feel more real, if people can relate to any of the …show more content…

Sedaris came into this French class excited to learn the language and he got the opposite. He was stuck with a rude professor and did not end up learning perfect French, but by the end that didn’t even matter anymore. Him and his classmates were treated horribly by the professor, but all that fear she made them feel was rewarding. He pushed himself so much with the help of the professor. This professor called him names and made him feel that anything he said was incorrect. Yet, Sedaris never gave up, he could’ve easily gotten rid of the class but he didn’t. Part of that reason was that the longer he was stuck there the more he wanted to learn the language, if he left the class it would only be affecting him. By the end of his story he was able to finally fully understand a couple of sentences the professor told him, even though they were negative things. Sedaris would’ve not been able to understand as much as he was able to by the end of the story, if the professor would’ve been kind to him all along. Kindness would’ve made the students enjoy the class but not take it seriously. This professor’s rudeness worked as a method to push them and never make them feel they were giving it their all. By the end he indicates how much satisfaction it brought him to be able to understand. Sedaris knew he still had a long road ahead in order to learn French, but he was

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