After reading and finishing the book Me Talk Pretty One Day, I realized that the first and second part have not much relation to one another. The first part was about him being a young, naïve, rebellious child. The way of him "talking pretty" would be to stop cussing, as I stated in one of my previous posts, because his language was basically consisted of all cuss words. In the following section, David Sedaris travels to France with his boyfriend, and hoped to learn French because he would be consistently visiting France. He was taking a French class in order to learn the language, rather than learn it himself. When he was speaking and trying to comfort one of his classmates in French, and when translated, he said "Much work and someday you talk pretty(Sedaris 172). He was trying to tell his friend that they are alike in many ways, which is that they cannot fluently speak French, and one day will. By the end of the book, Sedaris learns the language and speaks it very fluently, rather than only saying that one word he knew the first time he arrived. After all the trouble and confusion in the language, David Sedaris was able to complete his goal to "talk pretty".
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