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Venn Diagram Sedaris and Enjeti - Malik Ansley

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Venn Diagram Sedaris and Enjeti - Malik Ansley

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Sedaris - The theme is how cultural differences can affect the way people look at a way a family may live their life differently from the rest that teaches you to learn from the ways you may badly judge a person based upon them. Sedaris is more sarcastic in his tone due to his resentment towards the Tomkey's beliefs in the story. Sedaris brings up his background back then at the beginning of the story to get familiar who he was back then and still slightly is overall. Sedaris has long but very basic sentence structure within the story.

Both - They both have a certain approach when it came to people judging the cultural differences in our society as a whole. They both flashback to the past to talk about what they went through within it. They both talk in the first person point of view within their stories. They both have shorter paragraphs overall.

Enjeti - The theme is more with the racial tension many people have experienced first hand from people they would least expect it from that teaches us to not judge a book by its cover. Enjeti is more serious in her tone due to the racism she faced in the story. Enjeti brings up where she is at currently in the present at the beginning of the story so we can understand why she thought back to the incident that changed her views on life forever. Enjeti has short but very detailed sentence structure within the story.

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Sedaris- David focuses on the cultural differences in American society, specifically between his family and the Tomkeys.

Both- Sedaris and Enjeti both cover the theme of identity. They explore how cultural backgrounds, experiences, and societal expectations influence one's sense of self.

Enjeti- Anjali focuses on the culture in South America and the experiences of South Asia and how there is more power and privilege in one culture than the other.

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Venn Diagram Sedaris and Enjeti-Bobby smith

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Venn Diagram Sedaris and Enjeti-Bobby smith

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Enjeti - In this story The main focus is south american culture and racism towards the main character.

Both- Both of the stories are explain what cultural differences are shown in life.

Sedaris- This story focuses on cultural differences in society among a neighborhood

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Drinking Chai to Savannah

other people judge her

realizes at an early age that she will be an out cast to society

starts in present time, then refers back to a time when she was younger, then goes back to present

racism is present

Us and Them

Sedaris realizes something about himself

he judges other people

Both

man vs society

first person pov

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Sedaris and Enjeti Venn Diagram - Carlos Lozano Solivan

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Sedaris and Enjeti Venn Diagram - Carlos Lozano Solivan

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Us and Them

Brings up the backstory right away.

Some paragraphs start at the very left when bringing the story to a new moment.

Sedaris is told to look at himself for his actions.

Directs a message to not let people's implications get into others' minds.

Both

Both stories Focus on one person's perspective.

Both main characters look at their surroundings.

Both characters shift their attention toward a certain group of people.

Drinking Chai to Savannah

Introduces the current setting before the backstory.

Three stars appear to indicate the start of the upcoming event.

Displays a note of racism existing everywhere, even where people least expect it.

Enjeti sees the cruelty of America that can be inflicted on people of her race.

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Sedaris- The story shows the reader that his family's lifestyles, beliefs and values were different from the other family. Sedaris was self centered and inquisitive.

Drinking Chai to Savannah- The story shows it's readers that she didn't understand why the some people were showing racism. She was friendly and wasn't a racist.

Both- The stories were written in first person, had cultural differences.

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Us and Them:

Sedaris judges the Tomkey's on ideas that he doesn't understand for ex: not celebrating Halloween and not watching the television

Sedaris only understands the 'positive side' of being like everyone else and is able to freely judge others.

Sedaris learned more about himself from being judgmental to the Tomkeys' then he did about the Tomkeys' themselves.

Drinking Chai to Savannah:

Anajali is being judged for standing out and due to other people's underlying racist ideologies.

Anajali understands more about other people based on their judgmental ideas towards her.

Anajali is the only one to have experienced negative judgement from others due to living in America unlike her family and friends.

Both:

Both are curious and aware about another party being blissfully unaware about what is considered normal for them; Ex: Sedaris with Halloween and Anajali with Racism.

Both Sedaris and Anajali are gaining new perspective from outside interactions that widen their understanding.

Both Sedaris and Anajali are frequently moving to other spaces.

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Sedaris - is living in a neighborhood that has different cultures and beliefs.

Both - both stories are about different culture type of living and racism.

Enjeti - shes the victim of racism

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“Us and them” by David Sedaris

~   The character go through a tough time because they feel isolated due to their race or culture. They feel like they don't belong to their community.

~They also go through the fear of being judged based on societal stereotypes and how it can impact their personal identity.

Similarities

~The stories are about characters who feel alone and have trouble making connections with others.

~ The authors show how social rules and expectations affect people's identity and relationships.

~They both use the main character's thoughts and feelings to tell the story.

~They also use descriptive language to make the reader feel like they are part of the story

“Drinking chai to savannah” by Anjali Enjeti

~ The character feels alone and want to connect with others, but they struggle because of society's rules.

~ The characters background affects their identity.

~The author tells the story from the main character's point of view.

~They also describe things in a way that makes it easy to imagine being there.

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David Sedaris and Anjali Enjeti

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"Us and Them"

He wants us to learn to not listen to gossip

He learns that maybe family time is more important than tv

Its about a neighbor curious about another neighbor

"Drinking Chai with Savannah"

She wants us to learn not to be hurtful towards others

She learns that hatred leaves a mark

It is about racism

Both

You shouldnt judge a book by its cover

both are about anger/judgement towards someone

they both write their story in paragraphs and their dialogue in individual sentences