Me talk pretty one day

While reading this narrative my first thought on who was the villain was the teacher. David describes her as this confusing women who who bad and good moments. Constantly embarrassing and humbling other students to the point of having some of them cry themselves to sleep. He uses an important comparison to describe the mood in the school. The comparison was the feeling of competition in his french class in New York and how the students felt for each other in the school he was currently in. They felt united. They all knew each other's pain being inflicted from this teacher that was hard on them. The true villain wasn't this teacher but the language. It was essentially the French giving David and the other students a very hard time. When fall was coming around he felt hopeless. Thinking that he will never understand the teacher completely and he will never understand the French language like he thought he did. Though one day he crossed a certain barrier. Crossing this barrier was very subtle and not very dramatic like we all would like to image but once he did he could finally understand everything this teacher told him. Once these insults that the teacher would dish out to him and the other students sounded horrible and complete nonsense, now sounded like honey to his ears and he completely changed the way he felt about them. He instead wanted to hear every insult and word the teacher had to say. Being  bilingual I can understand where David is coming from. It is really nice knowing to languages because you can see how languages work. Noticing  the differences makes me realize how strange they both are.