Friday, January 25, 2013
Short Takes #1: David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day, Salman Rushdie - Water's Edge
I find Sedaris’ writing to have a unique humor and charm that entertains and allows a distracted reader such as myself to pay attention to every word. As someone who is currently learning French, this essay resonated with me in that regard as well. The nonsense words placed throughout the teacher’s dialogue gives the reader a sense of how Sedaris and the other students felt. His description of the teacher’s actions and aggressiveness were hilarious. His message came across clear to me, and the reader gets to experience a bit of that smugness he felt when he finally understood all of the teacher’s insults.
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Also, to any reading this rather dull post: read this essay and any other Sedaris you come across. He's great!
ReplyDeleteMake this kind of appeal in the post! Show me why I should.
DeleteI've read this before, In a high school class. Huge fan of Sedaris, if I recall he's funny. Totally reading this soon!
ReplyDeleteAs someone struggling with Spanish for the first time, you've convinced me to read this essay in the near future in an attempt to make light of my own lingual deficiencies.
ReplyDeleteGotta imagine a reader who isn't intimately familiar with the essay. So, provide a little context, and be sure to give some example from the writing. What does he do to create that unique humor, and what can we borrow as we develop our own writing?
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