The three narrative stories - The Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, and Shame by Dick Gregory - are connected in several ways. They each provide accounts of the main character's life at a particular point and their experiences overcoming various challenges. A theme of inspiration to overcome something negative runs through each story. Additionally, the stories employ humor and engage the reader's thoughts in similar fashion. They also show that humans are fallible and no one is perfect. The difficulties faced by each character help develop the stories and strengthen the characters' resilience.

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The Mother Tongue by Amy Tan , Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and
Shame by Dick Gregory, are narrative stories that give an account the main character’s life.
These accounts include events that characterize a person’s development at one point in their
life. These stories have a similarity and connected as they all have an overarching tone that
leads the readers on what to expect as the narrative unfolds. Inspiration among the characters
in the three stories is a factor that can be seen as a unifying factor that connects them together
as the main character in each story is seen to achieve or overcome the numerous challenges
they face (Spack p 46).The urge to overcome something for instance, in Me Talk Pretty One
Day and the urge to learn a language in the Mother Tongue and the devising of ways to deal
with and overcome shameful experience have a common feature. This is say that the
connection is evident when one is inspired to overcome something negative that might be
hindering them .Similarly, in the Mother Tongue, an inspiration to learn something is as the
author tries to learn French which is his mother tongue. The humorous way that each story
unfolds separately, the presentation of facts makes the three stories similar, connected, and
interesting as they catch the reader’s attention.
The three stories are connected in the sense that they build one another and they show
that human is to error and that no human being is perfect. The stories use a lot of humor in
putting across their point and supporting the major theme of the story. For instance, in Me

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Talk Pretty One Day,an humor is employed when the author wrote that the main character
would make Woody Allen look ham-tongued (Sedaris p 17). The stories engage the reader’s
thoughts and minds as one has to critically think about what they read so that they interpret
and decipher the right meaning that was meant by the author. However, the stories go ahead
to unfold, and the reader is surprised as some of the inferred meaning as well as perceptions
by them might be incorrect whereby this is attributed to passing at an early stage before
interacting with other people.
The difficulties encountered by the characters in the stories are aimed at developing
the stories further and strengthening the resilience of the other characters. This makes the
characters have a deeper sense of responsibility in conveying the intended message of each
story. For instance, in the Mother Tongue the central figure teaches themselves how to talk
their mother tongue while in Me Talk Pretty One day the author indicates that does not know
how to talk well. In Shame one is regretting talking too much and saying things that went
overboard and negatively affected the good relationships with some sections of the people that
they might have offended and that they interact with. This illustrates the connection in the
stories from learning to talk one’s mother to talking pretty well and from dealing with shame
that might be associated with talking too much (Warner, p.46). It is important to note that the
stories are both in abroad and home setting and they appeal to both the settings as the
meanings that areinferred in the three stories are universal.

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Work cited
Spack, Ruth. Guidelines: A Cros-Cultural Reading, Writing Text. Cambridge [etc.:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Print.
Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day. London: Abacus, 2013. Print.
Warner, J S. T. E. R. L. I. N. G. Thresholds: Literature Based Composition. Harcourt, 1997.
Print.