Family, friends and the environment, are factors that can affect the life style of a child and influence on the kind of life we live or who we become in the future. Due to lack is money and time, many people are not privileged to live in a society completely different from the one they are born into. Most people who lived in two or more countries often learned something new from these countries, which might have an impact on their life.
Gullen and Sedaris had the opportunity to live in different countries and learned some cultural differences in these countries. “The In the essay Danish Way of Life” the author Jamie Gullen contrasts her experience about the life style in New York (NY), to that of the Danish people while she was a DIS student in Copenhagen, Denmark. In Copenhagen, Gullen tries to narrate how the Danish way of life enabled her to discover that she was not only a very caring …show more content…
Sedaris introduces this essay by narrating us his interview with Hugh and explained how fearless Hugh was as a teenager. He highlights instances he believed could be traumatizing for a teenager, but surprisingly Hugh was immune to them. For example, when Hugh lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia together with his schoolmates and teachers, they visited a slaughterhouse and witnessed the execution of a pig. In Sedaris view, this was a terrible scene for an innocent child in America to watch. Sedaris called this event to be a lucky experience (Sedaris 297). Sedaris also cites an instance where after Hugh watch the movie ‘the talking Volkswagen’ two hours later, Hugh came across a dead man on a pole and that did not shock him. The talking Volkswagen was a scary move to watch and stirring at a man hung on a pole are not things fun to see by a teenager in one day. Hugh witness this events and did not seem bother by
Gullen and Sedaris had the opportunity to live in different countries and learned some cultural differences in these countries. “The In the essay Danish Way of Life” the author Jamie Gullen contrasts her experience about the life style in New York (NY), to that of the Danish people while she was a DIS student in Copenhagen, Denmark. In Copenhagen, Gullen tries to narrate how the Danish way of life enabled her to discover that she was not only a very caring …show more content…
Sedaris introduces this essay by narrating us his interview with Hugh and explained how fearless Hugh was as a teenager. He highlights instances he believed could be traumatizing for a teenager, but surprisingly Hugh was immune to them. For example, when Hugh lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia together with his schoolmates and teachers, they visited a slaughterhouse and witnessed the execution of a pig. In Sedaris view, this was a terrible scene for an innocent child in America to watch. Sedaris called this event to be a lucky experience (Sedaris 297). Sedaris also cites an instance where after Hugh watch the movie ‘the talking Volkswagen’ two hours later, Hugh came across a dead man on a pole and that did not shock him. The talking Volkswagen was a scary move to watch and stirring at a man hung on a pole are not things fun to see by a teenager in one day. Hugh witness this events and did not seem bother by