The story was very long but covered such a small topic . It feels like the story of many New Yorkers that probably what happen to me when i was younger i moved around alot until my parents were financially stable and well off .

When the author spoke about not believing in tv’s that impacted me on a personal level because in high school my senior year i was hospitalized for depression and sent to mental hospital but , that isn’t even half the story.When i was in the hospital there was a creepy guy that was scared of tvs and other electronics and it always through me off . Still to this day i think of what could set that type of phobia into somebody . “What must it be like to be so ignorant and alone?” What would make someone that scared of tvs and its small variety of possibilities. I thought it could be the movie “the ring” where the monster comes out of the screen but i’ll never know.

The story didn’t challenge my thoughts as much i feel it should’ve it definitely opened my minds to the different ways people see things. I try to be as opened minded as possible and hear other ideas, thoughts, choices. Everyone is entitled to your their opinion so it doesn’t affected mine. Unlike mr tomkey “Word spread that Mr. Tomkey did not own a television, and you began hearing that while this was all very well and good, it was unfair of him to inflict his beliefs upon others, specifically his innocent wife and children” where if he doesn’t believe in tv no one in his family can believe in it.

I liked that i can relate to the story and that i know what he’s talking about . I gives the story alittle more interest and connection. It makes for a better story to read when you can understand the author on a different level .

In my opinion , I didn’t enjoy it as a work of art it was just story i’ve read before with a different other and a slightly different context .”Word spread that Mr. Tomkey did not own a television, and you began hearing that while this was all very well and good, it was unfair of him to inflict his beliefs upon others, specifically his innocent wife and children” (sedaris 1).

“What must it be like to be so ignorant and alone?” ( Sedaris 1 )