This makes her stand out like terrifying and aggressive. David Sedaris describes the teacher as: “a wild animal “(p.2, l 82).

They all hope that one day they will be able to speak and understand French but has lost the hope because of their teacher. It shows the insecurities in Sedaris’ and the other students faith in learning the language. He was constantly reminded that he could not speak French which also shows in the title: “Me talk pretty one day”. He wanted an identity but the teacher would not let him have that. Sedaris wants to avoid the attacks and the humiliation so he starts studying really hard. This feeling of fear and shame ties the students together and there is no competition between them. “We soon learned to dodge chalk and protect our heads and stomachs whenever she approached us with a question” p.2, l. It ends up with them feeling as if they were in a war zone. The teacher completely ruins all of the students’ confidence. He can easily improve his language by trying to speak outside of the classroom but he simply does not dare because of his teacher’s personal attacks. This shows us that he is so afraid of the teacher that he does not dare to use the advantage that he actually is in France. “Before beginning school, there’d been no shutting me up, but now I was convinced that everything I said was wrong” (p. The teacher is very strict and does not care to give the students a hard time. Even though he is the oldest one there, the teacher makes sure that there is no segregation. OL2693099W Page_number_confidence 88.70 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210701193841 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 495 Scandate 20210628190835 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316776967 Tts_version 4.He starts by being positive but after his first lesson he feels terrified. Urn:lcp:metalkprettyoned0000seda:epub:d7bb2e35-681f-4104-87de-255a242a1a30 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier metalkprettyoned0000seda Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t97778t0k Invoice 2089 Isbn 0316776963 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA12541 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:04:44 Boxid IA40155901 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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