This essay is about writer's experiences during the waiting time in the airport. David Sedaris, the writer of this article, takes plane often because of his occupation, when he went to airport he saw many people having inconvenience. At spring on 2003, he was asked to prey for troops in Iraq. At summer of 2009, he was taking plane from Dakota to Oregon, But there was thunderstorm in colorado, so there was 2hour-delay on the departure at Fargo, he missed the connecting flight. When he arrived at Denver, he has directed to the customer-service line. It was very long and many people looked exhausted there. He firstly saw a woman in 70s with well-dressed boy and girl. She complained about airline that they always say they worry because of few people traveling, but because they oversold the ticket, she had to wait to send her grandkids to San francisco with being told nothing from airline until tomorrow. Suddenly, her phone rang and she tried to find thing to write, the author lend his pen&pad to woman. As David looked around he saw a family consists of couple in the 50s and 3teenagers which is two of them are boys and the other one is girl. The girl was holding very young baby. And she also saw grand-mother and she asked him about which person the author vote for. After that Sedaris suddenly fell a sleep. When he got up, he saw a man. He started to complain without asking anything. He said the woman at the gate said she called his name but she did not.
Suddenly there were announcement through P.A. system asked Adulf Hitler to find his luggage, and the man wearing khaki shorts and the mustache started complaining about their life under Barak Obama, who have been his office for only six months at that time. Author keeps saying he don't know how to hate, but that not he truely want to say.
WORKS CITED
"Standing By: Fear, Loathing, Flying" by David Sedaris, reprinted from the New York, recollected from the First year composition book 2011-2013 page 275-277
I think your summary shows you closely read the essay, but perhaps is too detailed for someone who hasn't read it yet. Imagine you are telling a friend about the essay: what would they need to know in order to understand Sedaris' purpose, the context he is writing it in, and his intended audience? Those might help you pick out the details that are necessary so they are not so overwhelming.
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I still think that there are some details here that might mislead a reader. For example, you say, "At summer of 2009, he was taking plane from Dakota to Oregon, But there was thunderstorm in colorado, so there was 2hour-delay on the departure at Fargo, he missed the connecting flight." Does that have any influence on the rest of the story? I'd rather see you focus on the details that you include like the grandmother with her three grandchildren. Perhaps consider including Sedaris' purpose in this summary. That might help lead you to the details that a reader will need to know in order to understand the purpose as you do.
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