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Analysis Of You Can T Kill The Rooster By David Sedaris

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In his essay “You Can’t Kill the Rooster,” David Sedaris described his delinquent younger brother named Paul. Based on David’s description, Paul was very unruly in his behavior and speech, particularly when he habitually cussed at his family, especially at his father. Before Paul was born, the Sedaris family moved from New York State to Raleigh, North Carolina. The parents forbade David and his sisters from succumbing to the Carolinians’ traditions and behaviors; Paul, however, ended up doing just that after he was born, having become influenced by such activities as listening to hard-core rap music (61). He did things opposite to what his parents told David and his sisters not to do, like addressing elders as “sir” or “ma’am” (60, 63), drinking
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