Analysis Of Losing My Childhood On The Continent Of Africa By David Sedaris

At one point in your life I bet you wished you were someone different, or had something someone else possessed. I know I have, I’ve wished I was richer, smarter, had their car, got to live in their house or even had their parents. Was that other person's life really any better? It may look it, but looks can be deceiving. Both David Sedaris and Andrea Roman deliberate on this topic in their stories about their childhood. In "Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa" by Sedaris, he talks about his childhood and how he envied the life of another boy named Hugh. In Roman's "We're Not..." she remembers her upbringing of growing up a foreigner in America, with a strict Bolivia household, and how she longed to fit in. Sedaris and Roman are two different people from two distinctive backgrounds with two unique stories, but both grew up to comprehend that things are not always better on the other side and that they needed to appreciate what they had. …show more content…
David Sedaris was born in 1957 and grew up in North Carolina. He also has various published writings and speaks publicly about his essays. He wrote “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” in 2000 when he was much older. Andrea Roman on the other hand was born in 1992 in Washington D.C from two immigrant parents. She grew up in Maryland and then attended Boston College where she wrote “We’re Not…” her only published writing, her freshman year at college, making her much younger at the time. The two stories were written in two entirely different time eras in two diverse cultured