In his "Me Talk Pretty One Day" essay, David Sedaris explores his feelings of alienation that come from his attempt to learn a foreign language while living in a foreign land. He explains this feeling early on when he is awed by the students at the school whose French was spoken with "ease and confidence [he] felt intimidating" and how they were "all young, attractive and well dressed, causing me to feel not like Pa Kettle trapped backstage after a fashion show."
Throughout the essay, Sedaris explores this idea through humor, whether it's through the opening paragraph in which he describes how he would rather use his student ID to get a discount at an odd amusement park, or how his French teacher's abusive tactics, although funny in their descriptions, created "fear and discomfort" in Sedaris, which "crept beyond the borders of the classroom and accompanied me out onto the wide boulevards."
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