Essays on Hard Work

If I had to choose one expression to explain how my brother, Chris, lives his life, it would be ‘hard work pays off.’ He is one of the most attentive people I know, a quality he inherited from our father as well as life experiences that illustrated the importance of…

David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day offers a description of his impressions as a 41-year-old man returning to college to learn French. The author’s classroom experiences have had a profound impact on his life outside of the classroom. He transforms from an outgoing person to a withdrawn person who…