1.) The writer does not grab the attention of the reader. He gives basic information about returning to school even though it may be in a different country. He just doesn't "soup" up the idea. How beautiful was the university? the surroundings?
2.) Yes. The writer focuses on specific events that happened during class time.
3.) Yes. Each student was from a different country speaking in their own language. So while reading this essay I am able to hear their language and visualize how they look.
4.) Yes. The writer is in a foreign country trying to learn the language with an instructor who would rather intimidate and make him feel inept than to teach him the language. She speaks French in ways he doesn't quite understand yet.
5.) Yes. I understand returning to college much later in life and feeling like I'm in a foreign country when I'm in my own.
6.) Yes. He gives a bit of backround on some of the other individuals coming to France from other countries to learn the language. There were specific incidents during class where the instructor would have the student get up and speak in French about things they loved or disliked and then remarked cruelly. In the end the writer spoke of a situation where the instructor made a comment to him stating that everday he was in class it was like having a cesarean section. GEEZ!
7.) In conclusion the remark she made he finally understood even though it was unkind it was a small step to a new world opening up and bathed in insults without reget because he understood.
Bobbi Irwin
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