Summary Of Me Talk Pretty One Day By David Sedaris

The article "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris is about the challenges faced by the narrator trying to learn French. He faces many challenges including the fact that he is forty-one years old and is returning to school. He also has a cruel teacher and many other difficult challenges that he faces. The author also uses humor to show the audience the narrator's efforts to learn French. The author tells this story in a captivating way, while also teaching the audience important lessons. The author David Sedaris was trying to show people in his article that a difficult goal can be accomplished through determination and effort by showing that the students stayed in the class taught by a cruel teacher, all the students became exceedingly stressed out taking the course and the fact that the narrator has put previous efforts into learning French.
The first point is that the narrator stayed in class even though his teacher was cruel to every single person on the first day of …show more content…
In the hallways students in the class gather together to talk about the class. Some students even mention that they cry at night trying to learn French(Sedaris 86). The students seem to talk on a regular basis and were stressed out to the point of crying alone at night. It takes determination to accomplish a goal that stresses someone out and causes them to cry. It takes determination to deal with this kind of stress just to accomplish a goal. Only a person serious about accomplishing a goal would continue despite these challenges. Even the most determined person may have thoughts of giving up when they are put in an extremely stressful position. Many people would give up thinking the goal is not worth the stress that they are currently dealing with. Only a person’s determination would allow them to keep putting the effort needed to accomplish their