1.) Individual Essay Reviews

The Monster Mash
The main idea of this essay is that you can die at any second, so be aware.
Sedaris is giving different ways he has experienced the different ways people have died and how pecular and spur of the moment they are. He talks in a sense of urgancy as if he too is worried about dieing. After having his experiences with many dead bodys at the morgue, he now has a new view on death. "Even the smallest things like a grape can kill you, I've seen it." (David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, page 16)

Momento Mori
The main point of this essay is agian, slightly about death. Sedaris is trying to symbolize how certian objects can flood thoughts to your mind by just looking at them, for example, his skeleton he bought for Hugh.
Sedaris' tone is very sarcastic, but also serious in a way. H egives many scenarios where he has bought something and it speaks to him, and he eventually get used to it. Like his dog painting and his stove. But is skeleton is different because it continues to speak to him and eventuallly it starts changing his views on life. "You are going to die" (David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, page 156) says the skeleton. Sedaris trys to change himself so the skeletons words are not so harsh.

All The Beauty You Will Ever Need
The main point of this essay is that when you are with someone, you should be perfect to them and they should love you for you. Other people should respect that no matter how weird you are.
Sedaris tells about how he is messy and rude sometimes to his boyfriend but he stilll loves him. And sometimes his boyfriend is "beyond faggy, picking flowers in a feild for the table" (David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, page 159) but Sedaris stilll love him. He tells about a couple he is buying drugs from and how pecular they are, but he doesnt question them because he is not one to talk. He gets relationships, saying about his man, " I am alll the beauty he will ever need" (David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, page 165)

Keeping Up
The main pont of this essay is slightly complicated. The essay stared  out at how couples yell a each other on vacations, but I think the main idea ended up being how David needs Hugh.
Sedaris hears a couple outside his window  and thinks abou tthe many times he has been mad at Hugh, only to get scared about leaving him and feel better. "Hugh takes care of it all, and without him, I'm like a wild animal." ( David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, page 18) His tone is thankful, and it shows that he actually needs Hugh, considering that he himself is "afraid of people" and "could never live by himself." He includes that Hugh always walks fast, but without seeing the back of his head infron tof him, he would always get lost.

Road Trips
The main point of this story is how Sedaris felt and how he started to come out and tell people he was gay.
The tone of the essay is almost relieved. It is a personal experience he is glad to let go of. The essay tells how/who he told first and why. Also his troubles of being a homosexual as a child. "Im a homosexual." (David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, page 66) His way of starting to tell the world is tellling a random couple who picked him up. Sedaris istrying to get the reader to picture his torment and how he finally brought himself to confess.

Of Men and Mice
The main idea of this essay is about Sedaris wanting people to believe his storys because he wants to impress.
Sedaris tells scenarios about him with taxi drivera, and higher drivers, with him telling his storys. He didnt get the reactions he waned and this makes him question himself. His tone is almost irritated in this essay, as if he is still not satisfied. "These are certianly dark times, both for the burning, abnd those who would set them alight" (David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed In Flames, page 204). This shows how he is relating his burning mouse story to everyday experiences and how he is distrought over it.