Me Talk Pretty One Day, written by David Sedaris, tells the story of how an awful experience with a French teacher actually benefited his learning of the language. In the exposition Sedaris presents the reader with a scene of his internal anxiety as an adult met with the first day of class. Unfortunately this fear is met with a unforgiving and ruthlessly evil French teacher who hounds her students over minute details like the gender of nouns. He describes how his "sadistic" teacher verbally and physically attacked her students of the course of the class. However overall he notes that his teacher actually aided in his studying of the language because "for the first time since arriving in France, [he] could understand every word that someone
