Let It Snow By David Sedaris Summary

My Reflection’s on “Let It Snow” Have you ever had an opinion about the story Let It Snow by David Sedaris? In the next couple of paragraph’s I will be analyzing the story and writing my reflections on some of the issues and ideas that arise in this story. The snowstorm makes a correlation to Sedaris's childhood by showing how hectic it was at times. Like a snowstorm, a family could be just as dysfunctional when the snowstorm hits like a fight it is hectic but once it has died down everything is calm and back to normal. When Sedaris talked about the snowstorm he transitioned into the result of what happened when his mom was around her children for longer periods of time. He stated that "Whenever it snowed in North Carolina it would just melt after hitting the ground but that day, in particular, it had snowed plenty", with the kids being home from school due to the snowstorm Sedaris’s mom felt that he and his sisters disrupted her everyday routine. This can be understandable since the kids were home for a longer period of time and probably felt cooped up inside …show more content…
I feel that even though the children were treated poorly by their mother, they still felt a sense of responsibility for her because they knew that she had been struggling with something personally. In the end, they still loved their mom and wanted to go home despite the fact in the beginning of the story the children felt anger and resentment towards her by doing this Sedaris showed that as a family they stuck together through thick and thin. I know that whenever my parents do something that causes me and my brother to become angry it’s hard to stay that way because they are our parents and in the end and we love them despite having a fight or being