A Crisis of the Identity

Ok so i read Ever day Use by Alice Walker, Two Kinds by Amy tan And Its Hard Enough Being me By Anna Lisa Raya. Each of them speaks some what of an identity crisis. I enjoyed "Its Hard enough being me" and "Two kinds" the first one being short gives it lots of plus points. Two Kinds was a little harder because it was so much longer. How ever Alice walkers one was terrible, it was long and boring. I didnt feel encaged at all. Anna Lisa Raya speaks about how up until she was in college she KNEW who she was but once she got into College should couldnt just be Anna she had to be Latina. She talks about all her struggles starting once she hit College because there was such enfisis on being A Latino and not Anna.

Amy Tan speaks about how she always felt like her mother wanted her to be something she wasnt and how she very much hated it. She stopped giving HERSELF a Chance just to spite her mother. For example with the Piano her mum wants her to play the Piano and she hires a deaf piano player to do it. Amy figures out a way to be lazy while doing everything she is asked to do. But at the end of the story, after her mother has died and left her a piano, and she is living on her own she plays the Piano just to see and she ends up actully being good at it.

These Stories all have an issue of identity Crisis, All not knowing who they are until very much later on in life. They find Life isnt easy, they berated their parents

Who does that david sedaris Think he is?!!?!

David Sedaris is an English teacher as far as i can tell, and a homosexual. From reading his works i have learnt that as a child and an adult both the man despised the idea of a teacher, thought of them as more of a tool of torture. When he was a child his teacher would always manage to find a way to announce to the class that David has a speech issue and was in therapy for it. as an adult he was called upon to be a teacher where we learnt in the teachign style he assumed teachers used he showed how little he thought of them.


David is a man filled with terror, terrified people will realize he is homosexual, realize he doesnt know WHAT he is doing, and terrified that people will find out he isnt even a real teacher. He is a Coward at heart, a man who doesnt know how to be brave.

What do people think of him, almost as much as he thinks of himself. I know for me i thought he was stupid i man the whole dividing class into these differnt sections like pillow talk, and other things. Its pretty stupid, assinging them to watch a silly soap opera and getting genuinly offended when they state what they think will happen based off of what actully happens in other soaps. But he doesnt have a funny story to tell, and boy can the man right a good paper. I enjoyed reading what he had to say even though it was pointless.

Over all David Sedaris is a homosexual english teacher who doesnt know a thing about being a teacher but he can write some good papers. Something i feel he should have tried to impart on his students when first becoming a teacher