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Summary Of Me Talk Pretty One Day Sedaris

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The excerpt from “Me Talk Pretty One Day” was written by David Sedaris, and is focused on when the author moved to Paris in order to learn the French language. Upon his first day in French class, Sedaris is belittled by his French teacher and begins to lose his confidence. At the end of this excerpt, the reader sees Sedaris regain his pride. From the beginning of this essay, Sedaris is out of place. He is in a completely different country than he has grown up in, which takes away the comfortable familiarity of home. He tells the reader that he is returning to college at age forty-one. This provided an uncomfortable age gap between Sedaris and other students. In addition to the large age difference, most of the students spoke French very well,
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