Reading novels, essays and journals about real life experiences allows me to reflect and relate my personal occurrences with others. In the essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris, the author shares a significant part of his life. He elaborates on his experience of living in Paris and his struggles in learning to speak the native language of France, French. This allowed me to relate his life experience to my own.
I admire the author as he continues his education despite his cruel teacher that mentally and physically abuses her students, and the fact that he has no friend or colleague to bond with. He never gave up until he "talked pretty" or understood the language of French. Although I may not have struggled with learning another language, I can still relate to David Sedaris when I struggled with learning Algebra II.
Unlike other students, it took me time and effort to understand Algebra II my senior year of high school. Unfortunately, my teacher was not the greatest and my time management was limited. Luckily, I had a great colleague who took her time to explain to me the concepts of math, over and over again until I understood some of the material. Although I did not understand all of Algebra II, I was enlightened with fact that I learned the basics. Just how the author was glad to understand French, not necessarily speak it fluently, I was glad to understand the basics of Algebra II. This is how I relate my struggles with David Sinclair occurrence.
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I like how she stated that throughout life you go through experiences and how you can relate to the story. After reading the book i could say that i also relate to it myself. She emphasizes in a brief sentence of what the story is about.
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