"Me Talk Pretty One Day" Response

1. Sedaris makes this into a humorous essay by making fun of the teacher. He makes sarcastic jokes about her, and her relationship with the various students. He is humorous when he cannot understand the teacher. The funniest moment is at the end of the essay when he attempts to speak in French, and he uses words it the literal sense that don't fit the meaning of the sentence.

Deadpan humor is a bland and expressionless form of humor. Sedaris uses deadpan humor when he describes the other students in the class. He does it a completely serious manner, but its results is humorous.

2. Sedaris slowly reveals a lot about himself in this essay. He characterized himself through his reaction to to other people and his analysis of the situation he is in. By the end of the essay one can assume that Sedaris is intimidated with trying to learn a new language, but he is laid back, comical, and the situation he is in entertains him and thus the reader. We can base the assumption off of his reactions to various situations.