assignment 4 cameron bazan

 

Sedaris’s “Sanding By” was an essay written to show the real scenario of everyday life and what goes on beyond our own thoughts. Sedaris used Word choice example from his own life to gather audience and support his opinion about how airports make people go crazy. First of all Sedaris wanted to attract a certain kind of audience when he wrote this, which could be people that are frequent flyers or people who spend a lot of time standing around mass crowds. That being said he definitely had a motivation for writing this which could be his experience being around airports made him a very judgmental person about other people that are around him. Another motivation could have been his problems with airports and how they change good people into monsters.

Sedaris is writing this after 9/11 which was a huge devastation for Americans and left many of them on edge. Sedaris creates his story to take place in an airport which is now very uncomfortable for Americans and any passenger at that. Maybe this could be an explanation why airports turn people into monsters. Sedaris wanted readers to remember not all people are what they seem from the outside there may be some situation that makes them uncomfortable with their surroundings and would not allow them to be there self’s. So maybe his message could be to not judge a book by its cover.

It’s funny how Sedaris used a magazine as his medium because magazines can be found in waiting areas as in the airport for people to take their mind of the Couse that is going on around them. He could have used this as a message to his readers to tell them not to judge others and keep your mind out of others business.