The Popular Kids David Sedaris Analysis

Throughout the story, David Sedaris, socially compares himself to the popular kids. This is evident by the way Sedaris talks about the popular kids. His idealization of the popular crowd is so profound that when he overhears the other kids at the Labor Day celebration he did not realize that there are other popular groups out there. His social comparison is that of an upward social comparison. An upward social comparison occurs when a person compares his or her social worth to people who they think are better than them. This is evident because Sedaris believes that the popular kids somehow are better off than he is. Sedaris believes that this is something unique to his environment. Moreover, Sedaris’ constant comparison is so extreme that he studies them like a subject in school. While studying the popular kids he has evaluated his worth to be far less than that of the popular kids. Even when he gets hit in the face with a rock by Thad Sedaris finds that he is feeling proud of it because he feels like the ‘popular kids’ are paying attention to him.
In fact, the instance when his father tells him to fight back Sedaris states, “Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat”(44). Sedaris has compared his ability to
Sedaris is constantly going through the three steps. First, you imagen your appearance to others. Subsequently, you imagined how others were judging you. After this, you would have an emotional response. For example, when Sedaris begged his father to change his outfit before the meeting. Consequently, Sedaris began to consider how it will look to the Popes’ if his father shows up dressed in work clothing. Therefore, an emotional response caused Sedaris to demand his father to change before they were to go over to the Popes. Which resulted in him making his mother reason with his dad to