One cannot get caught up in the midst of the challenge, it will be a student’s time to shine one day. Sedaris thought himself he would never get through this challenge he stumbled upon, (Sedaris 55), anyone should take this to see that through any difficult time there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. A first year student will come across many challenges in his or her education journey and also through all of life, Sedaris foreshadows that one should not take these negative times as a down fall but rather as a time to prosper from them, (Sedaris 56). Sedaris uses a large amount of pathos in his writing to have the reader feel his emotions through his writing, (Sedaris 55). While in his article, the main concept he focuses on is learning a new language, a student who analyzes this can take this as the idea of learning something new is difficult and one will face many challenges through the course of it. One may think to themselves how does a human being talk pretty? According to David Sedaris “talk pretty” does not metaphorically mean a person should talk like a beautiful sunflower growing under the glistening sun, he comes across as one should strive to achieve learning how to talk a language in a way more than just words put together to form a sentence. Therefore, a student should take challenges and turn it into an addition to help onto succeeding and to realize one can achieve anything one is passionate about. Sedaris’s purpose of the essay is to show readers through his thorough detail and sarcasm the many challenges of learning a something new. This essay is published in the book In Practice: A Reader for Writers and was written in the year 2000. David Sedaris’s essay “ Me talk Pretty One Day” is a constructed paper about how he one day hopes to in his words “talk pretty”. A reader, writer, or a person who talks substantially or scant does not think in his or her mind that he or she is talking pretty.

I talk pretty one day