Picka Pocketoni David Sedaris Analysis

I want to start off by saying David Sedaris is a great writer and I love his story of “Picka Pocketoni”. His character as a person is amazing, he is funny and very descriptive in what he talks about. So not only am I getting a good laugh out of the story “Picka Pocketoni” but I’m also getting a clear image of what is going on throughout the story. In this description David is being insulted by a group of young teenagers that is criticizing where he lives, France, and is also being insulted by an American couple named Carol and Martin, who thinks David is French but in actuality is just as American as them. The setting of the story is on the Metro of France, which is impressive to me because usually a story is set in a place like a different …show more content…
This story made me really realize how bad and mean some of us Americans can be. For example, the teenagers on the Metro were sitting in the folding chairs on the side in the train, but above them on all the windows was signed that basically told to get up when the train starts to get full to make space for others. Not only did they continue to stay seated when train got full but they were also having a very rowdy conversation on how America is way better then France. Personally that is rude, why would I want to talk about someone’s country while sitting in a train full of people that are from that country? That doesn’t make sense to me, some people just don’t use the common sense they were given. If France was that bad they could have just kept it too themselves and talked about it while in private. So as I began to question myself on why they were doing it, it was because they wanted the people on the Metro to hear them. Then here comes the American couple, this couple continued and continued to insult David as the train ride went