Compare and Contrast: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Analysis of the text: Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)

In Sedaris's text, he compares the experience of learning english in New York to the french class. He explain the differences in this paragraph:

"Unlike the French class I had taken in New York, here there was no sense of competition. When teacher poked a shy Korean in the eyelid with a freshly sharpened pencil, we took no comfort in the fact that, unlike Hyeyoon Cho, we all knew the irregular past tense of the verb to defeat. In all fairness, the teacher hadn't meant to stab the girl, but neither did shed spend much time apologizing, saying only, "Well, you should have been vkkdyo more kdeynfulh."


With this example, Sedaris also contrast the behave of her teacher to, as we said, his classes in New York. And highlight theses events to explain the environment in his new class room.