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Analysis In Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, an acclaimed writer and comic, discusses how learning a new language in a new country can be difficult and frightening. Sedaris explains his struggle to learn French when he moved to Paris, with the use of hyperbole and imagery. He uses the former throughout the text to describe his trouble learning the language. At one point in the text, Sedaris says "Learning French is a lot like joining a gang in that it involves a long and intensive period of hazing. And it wasn't just my teacher, the entire population seemed to be in on it (22)." This is a very obvious hyperbole. He exaggerates how hard it is to learn French by likening it to something as violent as being hazed by a gang. He also says "Her reaction [to his mispronunciation and assignment of the wrong gender to some French words] led me to believe that these mistakes were capital crimes in the country." Evidently, Sedaris is just magnifying his feelings...

Would you rather be involved in a test where you had to inhale toxic fumes or be injected with a cancer inducing substance? A test where you were restrained while chemicals were placed into your eyes or in a patch of shaved skin? Fortunately, people will never have to choose between these things. In fact, we are lucky to have the ability to choose at all. But unlike us, animals do not have this ability. Just like us, animals are living, thinking, and feeling creatures. They sit in pain as they wait for the next excruciatingly painful test to be performed on them. According to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), over 100 million animals die in the U.S. because of cruel cosmetic, drug, chemical, or food tests by different companies. Some that test their products on animals are: L'Oréal, Head and Shoulders, Estée Lauder , and Pantene. Furthermore, PETA states that some of these animals are domesticated e.g. dogs, cats, guinea pigs...