Me Talk Pretty One Day

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

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Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapters 1-3

Chapters 4-6

Chapters 7-9

Chapters 10-13

Chapters 14-16

Chapters 17-19

Chapters 20-22

Chapters 23-25

Chapters 26-27

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Discuss the roles of tone and humor in Me Talk Pretty One Day. How would you characterize David Sedaris’s use of humor in his storytelling? What kind of tone emerges from his sense of humor?

In each chapter, Sedaris typically incorporates multiple stories into the narrative to demonstrate one or several points. Select three chapters and discuss how each chapter uses multiple stories to illustrate a larger idea or theme.

Sedaris’s family is often the subject of many chapters in Me Talk Pretty One Day, especially his father, his mother, and his sister, Amy. Choose one family member and discuss the defining traits of their relationship. What role does this family member play in Sedaris’s life? In the larger arc of the book?