Similarities Between Gullen And Sedaris

The comparative effects of living abroad
Our family, friends and the environment, around us have an influence on the kind of life we live and this can determine who you would become in the future. Someone who is expose to different life style people in other countries have live turns to have a see live in general in a different view. Both Gullen and Sedaris had different experiences growing up. Most people who live in two or more different countries turn to have learn something new from these different countries which might have a permanent one someone life.. In the essay “The Danish Way of Life” the author Jamie Gullen contrasts her experience in New York (NY), while she was a DIS student in Copenhagen, Denmark. In Copenhagen, Gullen narrates
Sedaris was seven years old when his family settled in North Carolina, whereas when Hugh was seven years old, as his family moved to Congo. Sedaris brings in this time contrast to emphasize that he moved out of Africa to the U.S. when he was very young to be a reason why he missed the opportunities to have exciting experiences like Hugh. Hugh on the other hand, growing in Africa was fortunate to live in different countries while witnessing more perplexing situation before he left for college. Hugh lived with complete strangers, while Sedaris remembered visiting his grandmother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and could barely recognize him. Sedaris acknowledged that Hugh traveled to different places made him more experience (Sedaris 297). Both authors are making distinctions between lives abroad and in the United States. Gullen explains how living in Denmark did not change her, but allow her to discover her true
Sedaris uses the example of execution Hugh witness in the pig slaughterhouse or how Hugh did not seem to bother looking a death man on a pole after watching the movie of the talking Volkswagen. I believe Sedaris’s account of Hugh’s experience while growing up in Africa will be different if Hugh had to write about his experience. Sedaris minimized his experience and talks of all the wonderful experiences Hugh had. As a child of a U.S. diplomat Hugh had the luxury of traveling to different countries and meeting different personalities and staying with total strangers. Hugh witnessing horrible scene like the slaughterhouse, the dead man hanged on the pole, not complaining about his birthday are all admiration we get from the people who love and care about us, such as your family or best friend. Therefore, Sedaris might be bias in his account of Hugh childhood life in