Now that you've read David Sedaris's memoir, "Us and Them," answer questions 1-4 that appear in your textbook after the reading. Be sure to use specific details and quotes from the text to support and justify your answers. -How well do you think you told the story ?
-How did you go about coming up with ideas and generating text ?
- How did you go about drafting your narrative?
-Did you photographs or any other visual or audio elements? What did they add ? Can you think of such elements you might have used ?

martians or other types of aliens represent a unique fear as opposed to zombies. vampires and other types of monsters.   in most sci-fi stories, aliens come from other worlds and have different or more advanced technology.   abductions and experimentation on human bodies that involve these technologies, or the use of these technologies against human beings and the use of unknown "powers", are a type of fear that's different from that of other types of monsters.  

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.