First, don't quit. Even though the situation may be difficult and seem impossible, there is always a way to overcome it. The article shows us many examples of teacher that is not in any way, easy to get along with. She has sarcastic remarks on hand for every student and even resorts to physical abuse to assert her authority.
"The teacher continued her diatribe, and I settled back, bathing in the subtle beauty of each new curse and insult."(Sedaris, 1999).
From this quote, we see that after enduring the emotional and psychological and even sometimes physical abuse, Mr. Sedaris finally can understand the teacher's insults fully in French. While that may seem meaningless compared to what he had to suffer, to him it meant the world. The article starts with him only understanding half of what the teacher said in French to him. He never gave up, despite the anguish the teacher put him and his