Traveling to Paris and going back to school at the age of forty-one to learn a new language, just for the fun of it?! One example of the humorous tone shown in his story states "The first Anna hailed from an industrial town outside of Warsaw and had front teeth the size of tombstones". Sedaris' casual and laid-back attitude contradicts what seems to be a very unsettling event. The diction of his writing, in first person point of view, creates the impression that Sedaris' purpose is to either express the humor of his travels in a journal or to inform a family member of everything that has happened to him in Paris. The consistent, sarcastic tone of Sedaris' story adds humor to what is actually a stressful-sounding event. Not only is Sedaris trying to learn a foreign language but he also has traveled to a foreign place to learn it: Paris. This is exactly how David Sedaris feels in his story " Me Talk Pretty One Day" while trying to learn French. Everyone knows the grown-ups in Charlie Brown and a person's struggle listening to their incomprehensible murmurs.
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