“Genetic Engineering”
In the book, “Me Talk Pretty One Day”, by David Sedaris, one section is about “Genetic Engineering”. In this section, Sedaris think about his past childhood he tells a humorous story of about his father, and how father and son can be different. The theme of this story is that individuals in a family may have very different personalities and interests, but that shouldn’t stop you to have fun with each other. In these upcoming sentences he is very humorous on explaining how very different they were from their father.” The experience of watching was ruined, time and time again, by an interminable explanation of how things were put together….. To this day, I prefer to believe that inside every television there lives a community of versatile, thumb-size actors trained to portray everything from a thoughtful newscaster to the wife of a millionaire stranded on a desert island.”(Sedaris, pg.42).In these sentences it is portrayed with great humor how a father and a son very differently look at the world. His father looks at things with a literal sense and try’s to understand who things work, on the other hand Sedaris wants to look at things with his imagination and be more creative when looking at things.” Miniature golf was ruined with a lengthy dissertation on impact, trajectory, and wind velocity and our sand castles were critiqued with stifling lectures on the dynamics of the vaulted ceiling. We enjoyed swimming, until the mystery of tides was explained in such a way that the ocean seemed nothing than an enormous saltwater toilet, flushing itself on a sad and predictable basis.”(Sedaris, pg.44).When Sedaris indicate that” I feel like I am at the bottom of the toilet being pulled down by the water” because of his beautiful word choice. His dads’ curiosity for science ruined the beach for him and his sisters because as mere kids they didn’t care why there where tides, the just knew that they enjoyed swimming which their father ruined.